A report from Axios this week has indicated that PlayStation has laid off a total of 90 employees from its North American offices.
Many of these jobs include retail sales and marketing positions. According to the report, these lay offs are a linked to over half of PlayStation’s sales being digital rather than physical. As a result, many of these employees, which were responsible for traveling to retail stores to ensure displays were properly set up and employees were knowledgeable on the newest sales, were laid off due to lack of necessity. According to the report, employees were informed of the lay offs late in the process, and they were unhappy with the level of assistance from Sony in finding new employment.
This is unfortunately becoming a trend. More and more people will tend to lose their jobs if the necessity is not there. This can come from digital sales, to using self-checkouts at stores and more. They are businesses who have to follow the current trends of sales in order to advance their businesses. Those trends, however, are set by the consumer.
The digital age is only going to advance these layoffs more rapidly, and hopefully employees will be able to transition into new roles more easily.
