{"id":657445,"date":"2013-05-10T21:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=503836"},"modified":"2013-05-10T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T01:30:49","slug":"sharp-reportedly-axes-5000-employees-shifts-focus-to-smartphone-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/657445","title":{"rendered":"Sharp reportedly axes 5,000 employees, shifts focus to smartphone displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/10\/sharp-layoffs-recovery-plan\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/sharp.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sharp layoffs: Recovery plans\" title=\"Sharp layoffs: Recovery plans\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>Sharp will reportedly be laying off 5,000 employees as part of a three-year recovery plan to turn the company around. <a href=\"http:\/\/ajw.asahi.com\/article\/economy\/business\/AJ201305100067\">According to <em>The Asahi Shimbun<\/em><\/a>, the number of directors and advisory positions will be cut in half, and the number of employees at Sharp&#8217;s main office in Osaka, Japan will\u00a0be reduced by 50%. Additional layoffs are also expected in China and Malaysia. In an effort to increase profits, the company will be revising its focus to producing smartphone displays, large-sized HDTV sets and 4K TVs. <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sharp\">Sharp<\/a>\u00a0will reportedly announce its three-year recovery plan next Tuesday.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/crK6b47Worg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharp will reportedly be laying off 5,000 employees as part of a three-year recovery plan to turn the company around. According to The Asahi Shimbun, the number of directors and advisory positions will be cut in half, and the number of employees at Sharp&#8217;s main office in Osaka, Japan will\u00a0be reduced by 50%. Additional layoffs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}