Toshiba promises to reduce fixed costs by $ 86 million. And reach break-even in the field of hard disks manufacture in 2016 fiscal year, which begins in April current year. This will be achieved both through concentration on the hard drives production for corporate users (server class) and by reducing the range and sales volume of hard disk drives for laptops. Reducing the range of models will allow to optimize the costs of development and production of hard disk drives for laptops.
Toshiba staff of 150 people will have early retirement, with the candidates will be selected among those who have reached the age of 40 and worked at the company for more than 10 years. Toshiba will have to spend on the restructuring of HDD business about $ 34 million.