Gou for "axe"? Exposed sharp intends to cut 1000 jobs-GOU, sharp, Hon Hai-IT information
Japan, sharp has become Taiwan's Hon Hai (Mainland business known as Foxconn) subsidiary. When signing a purchase agreement, Foxconn head Terry Gou said, will do its best to ensure that no job cuts. However, according to Nikkei News reported on April 28, once again, sharp is considering to cut 1000 jobs. This one could hurt poor operating performance of solar energy business.
In the just-ended quarter and in the previous fiscal year as a whole, showing sharp losses. Foxconn formal when sharp, fears that Gou will sharp to carry out large-scale reorganization, including through massive layoffs as well as improve operational efficiency. But at the signing ceremony, GOU said he would try to safeguard jobs, but he also said Foxconn's internal elimination system.
In the deal, Foxconn funded the $ 3.5 billion, got a two-thirds stake in sharp. Japan media that Foxconn took advantage of sharp's predicament, accounted for a "bargain", the final purchase price much lower than the first bid. Next, sharp will continue to operate independently.
The Nikkei pointed out that sharp new 1000 people downsizing initiatives may be management's poor performance as a last resort and that not by Foxconn or Gou ordered layoffs.
In 2012, the sharp investment in LCD Panel errors, the company was almost bankrupt, when sharp introduced the voluntary early retirement scheme and reduce 3,000 employees last year as the performance continues to bad, sharp once again laid off 3200 employees.
End of the last fiscal year ending March, sharp as well as subsidiaries in Japan the number of employment to nearly 20,000 people, only four years ago, two-thirds scale, which employs 15,000 people directly under the sharp.
According to a Nikkei report, sharp is still considering the exact size of this round of cuts, policy, etc. Layoffs are mainly based on the work of staff time in the past, and this time, sharp may want to consider reducing the number of underperforming factory employees, so more likely affected are solar business staff and storage battery business.
In just the past year, Sharpe had expected to realize profits, but under the revised expectations, sharp may face huge losses of 1.5 billion dollars.
Whether the new owner, Foxconn, and now management have seen the need for an early reorganization of the sharp business, quickly fill the loss of hole.
Sharp's most important business (and Mr Gou's prized asset) is a flat panel business, but due to weaker phone sales and other reasons, the LCD screen is shrinking. Even after belonging to Foxconn, sharp's LCD business within short time difficult to get change.
And to make matters worse, recent media reports Apple has signed an agreement with Samsung Electronics, purchased 100 million pieces of OLED screens, new phone for next year. In the display panel industry in the transformation process from liquid crystal OLED-oriented, sharp appears backward. It is reported that sharp had mastered some of the OLED technology, but does not possess the capability of mass production.
Sharp's Solar business has been poor. In February, Mr GOU has said, if sharp, successful, it is possible to peel off loss-making solar business for a long time.
Sharp is another ailing businesses are household appliances, it is learned that Foxconn will not give up this business, it is possible to transfer their manufacturing operations to mainland China, to reduce costs, promotion and competitiveness among China's household electrical appliance enterprises.
Along with the acquisition by Foxconn, more personnel cuts may occur in the future. But Japan media also noted that sharp needs to pay attention to the problem of brain drain. There are already some sharp LCD panel business talent, to competitors.
In addition, while Foxconn is already nominally is sharp's new owners, but Foxconn purchase funds to the account of the last deadline on October 5 this year, Foxconn is hard to immediately get into sharp's day-to-day management decisions.
郭台铭欲挥“大斧”？曝夏普拟裁员1000人 - 郭台铭,夏普,鸿海 - IT资讯
日本夏普已经成为中国台湾鸿海（大陆业务称为富士康）的控股子公司。在签署收购协议时，富士康掌门人郭台铭表示，将会尽力保证不裁员。不过，据日经新闻4月28日报道，夏普正在考虑再一次裁员一千人。这一次可能殃及运营业绩不佳的太阳能等业务。
在刚刚结束的一季度和整个上一财年中，夏普又出现了亏损。在富士康正式收购夏普时，外界担心郭台铭将会对夏普进行大规模整顿，包括通过大幅裁员提高运营效率等。不过在签约仪式上，郭台铭表示将会尽量保障岗位，不过他也提到富士康内部实行末位淘汰的制度。
在收购交易中，富士康出资了35亿美元，获得了夏普三分之二的股权。日本媒体认为富士康利用了夏普所处的困境，占到了一个“大便宜”，最终收购价远低于最早的出价。未来，夏普仍将保持独立运营地位。
日经新闻指出，夏普新的1000人裁员举措，可能是管理层面对糟糕的业绩不得已而为之，即并非由富士康或者郭台铭下令进行裁员。
2012年，夏普在液晶面板领域的投资出现失误，公司几乎破产，当年夏普推出了自愿提前退休计划，减少了3000名员工，去年由于业绩继续糟糕，夏普再一次裁减了3200人。
截至三月底上一财年结束，夏普以及子公司在日本雇佣的人数为将近两万人，只有四年前三分之二的规模，其中夏普直属的员工人数为1.5万人。
据日经新闻报道，夏普仍然在考虑这一轮裁员的具体规模、政策等。过去的裁员主要是根据员工的工作时间，而这一次，夏普可能会考虑减少业绩不佳工厂的员工人数，因此受影响比较大的可能是太阳能业务和储能电池业务的员工。
在刚刚过去的这一财年，夏普曾经预期能够实现利润，但是根据修改后的预期，夏普可能面临15亿美元的巨额亏损。
无论是新东家富士康，以及现在的管理层，都已经看到需要尽早对夏普的业务进行重组，迅速填补亏损无底洞。
夏普最重要的业务（也是郭台铭最为看重的资产）是液晶面板业务，不过由于苹果手机销售疲软等原因，液晶屏幕在萎缩。即使是归属富士康之后，夏普的液晶业务短期之内很难获得改观。
更糟糕的是，最近媒体报道苹果已经和三星电子签署了协议，购买一亿块OLED屏幕，用于明年推出的新手机。在显示面板行业从液晶面向OLED转型的过程中，夏普出现了落后。据悉，夏普已经掌握了一些OLED技术，但是并不具备大规模量产的能力。
夏普的太阳能业务表现一直不佳。二月份，郭台铭就已经表示，如果收购夏普成功，有可能剥离掉长期亏损的太阳能业务。
夏普另外一个境况不佳的业务是家用电器，据悉富士康不会放弃这一业务，有可能把制造业务转移到中国内地，以降低成本，提升和中国家电企业之间的竞争力。
伴随着被富士康收购，未来可能出现更多的人员缩减。不过日本媒体也指出，夏普需要注意人才流失问题。目前已经有一些液晶面板业务的夏普人才，投向了竞争对手。
另外，虽然富士康名义上已经是夏普的新东家，不过富士康的收购资金到账最后截止日期是今年的10月5日，因此富士康目前还难以立刻涉足到夏普的日常管理决策中。