The mobile division at Sony has been struggling and the latest example of its struggle is a report stating it will cut hundreds of employees. Local site 8till5 reports 975 jobs are being cut in Sweden and Sony has confirmed it is technically cutting just 575 redundant employees. All of the other people are consultants.

With this confirmed employee cut, Sony is losing half of its workforce in Sweden. The cut leaves Sony with around 1200 people working in that country. Sony's layoffs were spread across all departments in the mobile division.

Even though Sony has recently announced the Xperia Z4 and the Xperia Z3+, its mobile division is not doing well and the Xperia phones can't compete with Apple and Samsung. It's been reported Sony has considered selling off the whole division.