According to Bloomberg, Sonos is laying off 200 workers in an attempt to consolidate its product teams. The layoffs occur as Sonos is still getting over a botched app redesign that angered loyal users in May.
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Sonos briefly halted physical product development in order to concentrate all of its resources on app enhancements after receiving a lot of negative feedback over the app's glitchy UI and missing features. Revenue fell 16 percent in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2024, and it took months for the corporation to restore features that had been eliminated during the redesign.
After writing an apology and outlining the actions Sonos was taking to remedy the app in July, Patrick Spence, the CEO of Sonos, resigned earlier this year. Tom Conrad, a long-time Sonos board member and founder of the music provider Pandora, took Spence's place as interim CEO.
According to Conrad, Sonos is restructuring because it has been "mired in too many layers that have made collaboration and decision-making harder than it needs to be," he told the staff. Instead of distinct groups for various product categories, Sonos will have a more straightforward organisational structure going forward, with divisions for hardware, software, design, quality, and operations.
