"Panasonic Watcher" Reveals the Fundamental Reason Why Panasonic Has Become a "Company that Repeatedly Cuts Personnel"

Panasonic has been cutting staff numbers repeatedly since the 2000s. Since its former president, Kunio Nakamura, announced in 2001 that "there is no sacred cow except for the founder's management philosophy" and that "there is no sacred cow except for the founder's management philosophy," staff reductions have been made under each of the succeeding presidents...

Panasonic Holdings recently announced large-scale personnel cuts, and other restructuring announcements are coming in one after another. But how do companies actually go about reducing their workforce? We will look into the reality of this from internal information, such as one company's "retirement encouragement manual."