Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun Newspaper is reporting that Ricoh’s CFO, Shun Kawaguchi apparently announced that company is set to evaluate Ricoh’s many businesses and determine with it will withdraw from or attempt to sell

Left go or layoff because of rev retail.

Seems to me like RIcoh has been dropping the ball on many things. Supply issues, billing issues and big time service issues . Little to no direction from management or senior management. It makes you wonder what the future holds.

What was the sponsorship / branding business case here? Gambling? Horse deaths? https://www.tsn.ca/modern-games-makes-history-winning-ricoh-woodbine-mile-1.1850240

We'll have major layoffs either this or the following month. All things point to that.

Scraping the bottom of the PR barrel… https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ricoh-creates-industry-first-training-to-career-program-investing-in-generation-next-and-the-future-of-print-301611639.html

I heard that by Oct 1st the only service RIcoh direct is retaining is Production print. Most will find out by the end of August. Anyone else hear this information?

Imagine Change/New World of Work= Get rid of your senior tenured talent and replace with cheap newbies. Customers love dealing with “cashiers in training.” Speaking of cheap, what’s with the sign on “bonus”. $500? $1250? These are like sales spiffs... — read more 

It's surprising to see how little the management cares about making sure that institutional knowledge is not lost. People are walking away - some are even being laid off - who posses invaluable experience. When the leadership stops giving a damn... — read more 

Happening again big chunk given or sold to dealer. Paid how much to buy the s**t show I mean Ikon now giving it all back. Gives you a warm fuzzy feeling working here

A Japanese company and a North American company decided to have a canoe race on the St. Lawrence River. Both teams practiced long and hard to reach their peak performance before the race. On the big day, the Japanese won by a mile. The North... — read more 

Imagine. Change! What a great company. Better increase those shipping and handling charges ricoh… https://www.napa-net.org/news-info/daily-news/ricoh-rocked-excessive-fee-suit

I'm not going to claim that this is the case for everybody, but it certainly is for the majority of employees. Unless you know someone there is no chance to be promoted or moved around. I've been passed for promotions twice in as many years for... — read more 

I was a Ricoh field service technician until just a couple months ago. I worked for them for 6 years. Some of the products are good especially the black and white copiers as they are more reliable and not so complicated to work on because they are a... — read more 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1iaqy5KF9eU

Incredible what this company puts on a stick and pumps up and down. Go back to sleep until you have something to talk about. Washing machine more useful than ricoh’s printers… better built and less expensive... — read more 

With the launch of the WMT today, I've already applied for a few new jobs. A big part of this job is the freedom to work at your own pace, and as long as your calls get done & the customers are happy, you're free to do what you will. That's why we... — read more 

Fujitsu shedding this piece of business to focus on growth and looking ahead into the a sustainable future… ricoh? Not so much. Ricoh basically a bottom feeder shopping for hardware tech at other companies’ garage sales. And it’s SCANNERS… ricoh... — read more 

https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/amp/articles/1485251

Xerox services received notification of new training courses on how to take Ricoh service calls. This happened with Lexmark, then they had service train on the equipment. Not sure what this spells for Ricoh, it definitely sucks for us since we are... — read more 

Hope they pay COD. Management Issues? Laughable… https://m.economictimes.com/industry/cons-products/electronics/minosha-india-eyes-rs-500-crore-turnover-in-five-years-post-ricoh-deal/amp_articleshow/90620122.cms

In the last 2-3 weeks our field service team had 2 techs quit and find better paying jobs (no surprise there). Our service call volume was already high at that point as we never recovered from all the covid related job cuts and now we're drowning... — read more 

Contrary to popular opinion, getting rid of experienced employees will not solve all of the company's problems, especially not those that were created by this self-serving management. This was attempted before by many and it always ended in disaster... — read more 

Wonderful messaging….Do your auditors have offices in New York? London? https://www.printweek.in/Features/our-goal-is-to-reestablish-trust-for-ricoh,-says-atul-thakker-of-minosha-55905?amp=1

Exciting new innovation is (drum roll) a water mill? Archimedes family getting any royalties for this? This 8th grade science fair tech makes photocopiers look cutting age. Maybe that was the strategy? Anyone still wondering why their ricoh job is... — read more 

Does anybody know more about this?

I just see “devices” not being shipped. Can someone please define?

Ricoh is stuck in the past. It still clings to the way things used to be done 'back in the day' and makes no attempts to keep up with the times. Micromanaging is still a favorite strategy, and everybody is more concerned with corporate politics than... — read more 

I hate my job so much that I'm now unable to enjoy my weekends properly. I can relax somewhat on Saturdays but come Sundays, the knot in my stomach starts to grow until work is all I can think about. I've been trying to find something new but so far... — read more 

They just announced this baby sitting app for customers called where's my tech. The training video explicitly says that customers will be able to see where you live in the morning before you leave. This is insulting on so many levels. Most field... — read more 

ricoh announced March 8 that they won’t be shipping devices to Russia. Why did that take so long? And why just devices and not toner and parts? I don’t think Oligarchs cheeks are drenched with tears because they can’t upgrade their Ricoh printer. And... — read more 

When a company’s Leadership Team is all male, probably not a good place to plant the female empowerment... — read more 

I have heard that Ricoh is losing deals everywhere because of pricing. I guess more layoffs will happen once they give all their business away.

Why can’t ricoh develop its own solutions in-house vs buying? Not exactly rocket surgery? There’s a lot to be said to all about earning and learning your way into the business you want to get into… but guess it’s hard to develop for the present or... — read more 

Existing Ricoh customer in PA just signed for a new Konica Minolta solution. Reason for the move, poor customer support at Ricoh.

Nothing but crickets in here lately. What's the latest from the front lines of Ricoh? Any new news about the much talked about transformation of the company from last year?