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Sony laying off 900 PlayStation employees, London Studio to close in its entirety

Sony is to lay off 900 people, equating to eight percent of its workforce.

In a post earlier today, Sony's Jim Ryan said the company's PlayStation community meant "everything to us", and therefore it felt compelled to share an update on the current situation. "We have made the extremely hard decision to announce our plan to commence a reduction of our overall headcount globally by about eight percent or about 900 people, subject to local law and consultation processes. Ryan shared an email sent to staff today included in his full statement, titled: Important Update Regarding Organisational Restructuring.

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