Sonos cuts 200 jobs, targets thinner and more targeted teams
According to The Verge. This decision aims to reduce management layers and focus on smaller and more effective teams to improve decision -making and facilitate collaboration.
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The acting CEO, Tom Conrad, communicated this development to employees, stressing the need for the company to become more agile in response to continuous challenges.
Conrad noted that Sonos had become trapped in complex organizational frameworks, which hampered effective collaboration. He pointed out: “One thing that I observed with the first hand is that we have become mired in too many diapers that have made collaboration and decision -making more difficult than needed.”
These layoffs are an integral part of Sonos’ strategy to reorganize its workforce in more rationalized and targeted teams, thus guaranteeing that the company can better prioritize critical projects in the future.
This last series of layoffs exceeds the previous reduction in August, during which around 100 positions were eliminated. Sonos encountered several difficulties, including a drop in demand for products and challenges resulting from the controversial update of last year’s mobile application.
The deployment of the application has encountered significant criticisms due to technical problems, resulting in user dissatisfaction. This situation was substantial enough to contribute to the resignation of the former CEO Patrick Spence last month.
While Sonos approaches the publication of his next report on quarterly results, these job cuts have aroused concerns about the short -term perspectives of the company. Nevertheless, Conrad has undertaken to rectify previous errors, with a particular emphasis on improving the experience of the mobile application.
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In addition to layoffs, Sonos intends to reorganize its teams of products in specialized groups for hardware, software, design and operations, rather than structuring them around categories of individual products.
