Hopefully, Ericsson is with the new tug-of-war – Aftonbladet

today, the management of the company Ericsson called to the press conference. If not in the last days of leaks to the media is just wrong will be told that between three and four thousand employees in Sweden will lose their jobs. By all appearances, the company plans in practice to lay down the pure production in Sweden. The factories in Borås and Kumla is really bad.

Ericsson’s announcement comes hardly as a surprise. For the company and its employees have the past decade focused on austerity, reorganizations and dismissals.

Set a bigger issue

the company also finds itself in a ledningskris, where the ceo got fired and the major shareholder is alleged to be prepared to sell, do, of course, the situation is even worse. In the short term, now the ministry of industry to take out all of the tools available to handle the shift for the people and locations affected. The experience of how to do after all. It is about education, transition support, and investment in infrastructure. In the slightly longer term, today’s announcement from Ericsson is a major issue. The entire global statistics on telecommunications is now going through a structural change. 3G and 4G should be replaced with the 5G, and the world’s telecommunications companies are pooling resources to cope with the transition.

It will be his task

It is an international tug of war very far from the Swedish opposition’s cry for simple jobs and subsidized competitiveness. Hopefully Ericsson’s management today that the company intends to participate in the tug-of-war, that it will happen with Sweden as a base, and it also means that parts of the output which is closest to the development will remain in the country.

In that case it will be Mikael Dambergs task in every way to support the development. It is high time. Too much of Ericsson’s and Sweden’s head start has already been wasted.