A reorganization action is rumored to be sweeping through the staff at Sony Computer Entertainment America. The company will be cutting back on an unspecified number of workers in this reorganization. For now the only clear details about the job cuts are related to the closure of the public relations department, which is located in the city of San Diego.

If the job cuts total as high as some are estimating then the company will trigger a mass layoff action. For those of you who are not familiar with the idea of a mass layoff action here is a look at how the federal government defines the term, “The Mass Layoff Statistics (MLS) program collects reports on mass layoff actions that result in workers being separated from their jobs. Monthly mass layoff numbers are from establishments which have at least 50 initial claims for unemployment insurance (UI) filed against them during a 5-week period. Extended mass layoff numbers (issued quarterly) are from a subset of such establishments—where private sector nonfarm employers indicate that 50 or more workers were separated from their jobs for at least 31 days.”

For now there is no official word from the company about the nature of the job cuts, what other divisions are set to take cuts and when the rest of the cuts will be into effect. A reorganization is however not out of the question for Sony, which has been making some substantial cuts in the recent past. For those of you who missed out on our August coverage of layoffs here is an excerpt that will get you up to speed, “Most of us know the name Sony. You may not have heard of one of its subsidiaries, Sony Mobile Communications. You may also not know that the company is getting ready to cut back on about 1,000 jobs in that division. Those cuts, which will represent about 15 percent of this subsidiary, are set to impact workers in multiple nations, with the bulk of the cuts coming from Sweden.”

Before that our coverage looked at the cuts made by the company back in April, “When most of you think about problems for Sony you probably think about the recent trouble that they had with the security of the personal data of people with a Playstation Network Account. You might even think about the last time you had to call the Sony customer support line for a product. You probably do no think much about the possibility that this electronics company is going to let go of about 10,000 workers, but that is exactly what the company is getting ready to do. Those 10,000 workers are going to be let go sometime between now and the end of the year, though they will most likely be cut incrementally to make managing this number of layoffs a less monumental tasks. The layoffs are going to impact workers form all areas of the globe, instead of only one specific country. The announcement of these jobs cuts, which was made early this morning by the company, is only going to impact about six percent of the workers the company employs overall.”