Sega reaffirms its commitment to restructure at the expense of staff

Sega of Japan has gone on record to state that it intends to go back into the black before March of next year.

Chief Operating Officer, Tetsu Kamaya, has underlined the company’s long-term strategy to press in Tokyo recently, stating that Sega will be shedding around 400 permanent staff over the next few months.

This can’t be a good time to be working for Sega of Japan. Having worked hard for years, the company thanks many employees by making them redundant on the eve of profitability, in a country that still has a ‘job for life’ ethos. Just as Sega does what it should have done some years back and becomes a software developer and publisher only, it opts to offload some of its famously dedicated staff.

Staff facing the chop will take little comfort from the twelve Sega employees who are currently holed up in a room doing no work. Sega refused to allow these twelve employees to remain working at its Tokyo head office, but contractually the employees did not have to move, so Sega employed them to do nothing other than sit around.