the Ericsson factory in Borås, sweden. Arkivbild. Photo: Jack Mikrut
Cuts made in production, 1 000 people, and research and development, 800 and 1 200 in other services. In total therefore 3 000 services. In addition, approximately 900 consultants stop. Voluntary redundancies, downsizing and other options like outsourcing mentions Ericsson that various alternatives to the cuts.
“It’s a tough answer we give employees in Sweden today, and we have great respect for the concerns this creates. These measures are necessary to secure our long-term competitiveness and technology – and tjänsteledarskap,” writes ceo Jan Frykhammar in a press release.
member locations is Borås, Gothenburg, Karlskrona, sweden, Kumla, sweden-Linköping and Stockholm. The operations in Lund, sweden and Kalmar, sweden is not affected.
In Borås and Kumla “significant cutbacks” to be made, which is a part of the company’s strategy to concentrate production in fewer locations. Neddragningsprocessen will be phased in, according to the company. For the largest part of the business will be completed in the first quarter of 2017, while the process in Kumla and Borås, and is expected to be completed in the second half of 2017.
Overall, Ericsson pull down the variable costs from 63 billion to 53 billion between the years 2014 and 2017, according to the previously announced decision from Ericsson.
Ericsson announces at the same time that the company intends to hire about 1,000 people in research and development in the next three years.
the Share only marginally on the stockholm stock exchange.
Ericsson holding press conference in the Chest at 11 o’clock today, Tuesday, on the occasion of the major changes the company makes in the Swedish operations.
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