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Toshiba eyes thousands of job cuts, sale of Toshiba

Tec, in major restructuring


THE JAPAN TIMES
NEWS
DEC 15, 2015
ARTICLE HISTORY
Toshiba Corp. is considering slashing several thousands of jobs worldwide as it aims to
restructure its loss-making, television, personal computer and white goods businesses,
sources close to the matter said Tuesday.
The scandal-hit conglomerate is expected to solicit early retirements and to transfer workers,
the sources said, adding that the company could unveil such plans on Monday.
The envisaged job cuts are part of Toshibas broader restructuring following revelations this
year that the company inflated profits over a period of almost seven years.
The downsizing of Toshibas Ome complex in west Tokyo, which develops TVs and PCs, is
also under consideration, the sources said.
In its global TV business, Toshiba is expected to sell a plant in Indonesia to a foreign maker.
A plant in Indonesia that produces washing machines will likely be sold as well, sources have
said.
As of March, Toshibas lifestyle division in charge of white goods, TVs and PCs had over
24,000 employees both in Japan and abroad. The division logged a 42.5 billion operating
loss for the first half of fiscal 2015.
Toshiba has already decided to withdraw from its image sensor and white light-emitting
diode business, which would lead to some 2,300 job cuts and transfers.
Units to be axed include its Tokyo-listed office equipment subsidiary Toshiba Tec Corp.,
separate sources said.

By selling its majority stake in Toshiba Tec, a manufacturer of information terminals for retail
stores, the conglomerate plans to further focus on its mainstay businesses, such as nuclear
power and semiconductors, the sources said.
Toshiba Tec incurred a group net loss of 7.4 billion for the first half of fiscal 2015 due to its
sluggish point-of-sale system business, delivering a blow also to its struggling parent
company.
Toshiba Tec and its subsidiaries employ around 20,000 people.
Toshiba President Masashi Muromachi has said he will proceed with restructuring without
limits after the accounting scandal led the firm to revise downward its profits totaling 224.8
billion on a pretax basis from April 2008 to December 2014

Alasan Toshiba Tutup Pabriknya di Bekasi


Siti Nuraisyah DewiRabu, 3 Februari 2016, 13:09 WIB
VIVA.co.id - Toshiba dikabarkan telah menutup pabrik terakhirnya di Cikarang, Bekasi barubaru ini. Dalam 10 tahun terakhir, Toshiba telah menutup enam perusahaannya di Indonesia.
Dikutip pada laman CNBC, Rabu, 3 Februari 2016, Toshiba, perusahaan elektronik asal
Jepang bulan lalu telah mengumumkan akan melakukan pemutusan hubungan kerja (PHK)
hampir 7.000 tenaga kerja, menyusul ditemukannya skandal akuntansi senilai US$1,3 miliar
dalam perombakan perusahaan agar lebih efisien.
Seperti diketahui, manajemen Toshiba saat ini lebih memilih mengubah fokus bisnis menjadi
ke produksi chip dan energi nuklir.
Toshiba juga mengatakan, akan menjual pabrik televisi terbesarnya di Indonesia, dan fokus
untuk mengubah bisnis dari perusahaan yang memproduksi PC ke energi nuklir. Diperkirakan
jumlah karyawan yang dikurangi mencapai 10.000 buruh, baik yang di-PHK dan yang
melakukan pensiun dini.
Pada kuartal I-2016, Toshiba diperkirakan akan menderita kerugian bersih sebesar US$4,53
miliar, karena biaya restrukturisasi perusahaan, termasuk proses penutupan pabrik di
Cikarang, Indonesia.

"Dengan menerapkan semua ini, kami ingin mendapatkan kepercayaan kembali dari
pemegang saham, bahwa kami akan mengubah bisnis menjadi lebih kuat," ungkap
manajemen Toshiba dalam sebuah pernyataan.
Pada Agustus tahun lalu, Toshiba membukukan kerugian bersih 37,8 miliar yen karena
membengkaknya biaya operasional. Hingga saat ini Toshiba masih melakukan penyelidikan
terkait skandal akuntansi.
Skandal akuntansi itu telah menyebabkan para karyawan mempertanyakan atasan mereka.
Toshiba juga telah menggugat tiga mantan CEOnya.
Sejak adanya pemberitaan terkait skandal akuntansi itu, harga saham Toshiba anjlok hingga
40 persen.
Sayangnya, sebagian besar analis mengatakan bahwa Toshiba telah terlambat melakukan
restrukturisasi perusahaan. Perusahaan ini sebelumnya meluncurkan produk laptop untuk
pertama kalinya pada 1985.
Belakangan, laptop produksi Toshiba kurang diminati konsumen Asia karena persaingan
harga

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