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Sonos To Cut 3% Jobs Affecting User Experience, Product Teams As It Looks To Streamline Its Business: Report

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Sonos is cutting its workforce by 3%, impacting its user experience, product, and design teams, as well as senior roles, to streamline its business and save costs.

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Sonos Inc. (SONO) is trimming its workforce by 3%, which will impact its user experience, product, and design teams as it pushes to operate with a leaner structure and save costs, according to a report by Bloomberg on Thursday. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the job cuts to the news outlet while highlighting that the move will also affect senior roles. The company's representative told Bloomberg via email that the cuts "were about removing layers and streamlining our teams so that they can execute with greater autonomy and speed." The spokesperson also confirmed that, while the company has been rapidly integrating artificial intelligence into its products, the cuts were unrelated to that effort. Shares of the company were down more 1% in afternoon trading. The latest cuts come after the company conducted layoffs in April in its marketing department, an initiative spearheaded by CMO Colleen DeCourcy, who joined Sonos in November last year. DeCourcy had then said she wanted to fix the company's underlying structure, not lower headcount, and emphasized the need for "clearer jobs and shorter distance between a decision and its outcome." As of May 31, the company had 1,840 employees working globally. In an internal memo seen by Bloomberg, CEO Tom Conrad stressed that he wants to...

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    "title": "Sonos To Cut 3% Jobs Affecting User Experience, Product Teams As It Looks To Streamline Its Business: Report - Stocktwits",
    "excerpt": "Advertisement | Remove ads. Sonos Inc. (SONO) is trimming its workforce by 3%, which will impact its user experience, product, and design teams as it pushes to operate with a leaner structure and save costs, according to a report by Bloomberg on Thursday. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the job cuts to the news outlet while highlighting that the move will also affect senior roles. The company’s representative told Bloomberg via email that the cuts “were about removing layers and streamlining our teams so that they can execute with greater autonomy and speed.” The spokesperson also confirmed that, while the company has been rapidly integrating artificial intelligence into its products, the cuts were unrelated to that effort. Advertisement | Remove ads. Shares of the company were down more 1% in afternoon trading. The latest cuts come after the company conducted layoffs in April in its marketing department, an initiative spearheaded by CMO Colleen DeCourcy, who joined Sonos in November last year. DeCourcy had then said she wanted to fix the company's underlying structure, not lower headcount, and emphasized the need for “clearer jobs and shorter distance between a decision and its outcome.” Advertisement | Remove ads. As of May 31, the company had 1,840 employees working globally. In an internal memo seen by Bloomberg, CEO Tom Conrad stressed that he wants to transform...",
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