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Panasonic Holdings has announced plans to cut around 10,000 jobs as part of a group-wide restructuring effort.

According to the announcement, as part of structural reforms, the group plans to cut around 10,000 jobs by soliciting early retirement mainly in the sales and administrative departments of its various companies.

We are planning to have about 5,000 participants domestically and 5,000 overseas, mainly carrying it out this fiscal year.

We also plan to withdraw from unprofitable businesses where revenue improvement cannot be expected, and to consolidate or close certain locations.

Large-scale personnel reductions were carried out when Matsushita Electric Industrial now Panasonic posted its first-ever group-wide loss in 2001, implementing early retirement for about 13,000 employees. In 2011, the company also cut approximately 40,000 jobs following the acquisition of Sanyo Electric as a subsidiary.

Panasonic Holdings has launched a group restructuring this fiscal year, focusing mainly on low-profitability businesses, in order to concentrate on corporate service operations that utilize AI artificial intelligence and other technologies.

Specifically, they have revealed that they are considering options such as selling or withdrawing from the TV business, splitting their subsidiary Panasonic, which handles home appliances, air conditioning, and lighting, into several business companies, and making major revisions to the development, manufacturing, and sales systems for home appliance businesses that are currently dispersed within the group.

In addition, the companys earnings forecast for this fiscal year is as follows: sales are expected to decrease by a little over 7% from the previous year, to 7.8 trillion yen; final profit is expected to decrease by more than 15%, remaining at 310 billion yen. The company also indicated that it expects to record a loss of 130 billion yen as expenses related to a series of personnel reductions and other measures.