Plan to Lay Off 1,000 Employees Prompts Protest at Sony Offices

(Beijing) – Dozens of Sony Corp. employees gathered outside the Japanese company's offices in the capital on November 4 to ask for details of a layoff plan.

The same day Sony told Caixin that it would dismiss about 1,000 employees working in its mobile phone segment and most of those workers would be in China.

Some 50 Sony employees started to gather outside the office building at about 11 a.m. and more joined later, an engineer for the company said. Leaders of the Beijing office spoke to the employees about 11:30 a.m., urging them to remain calm and go back to work. The employees went back to work at 1 p.m.