the Rumors around Ericsson’s big austerity for Sweden turned out to largely sue. 3, 000 people may leave the company. The factories in Borås and Kumla pared sharply. At the same time, Ericsson is hiring 1 000 new graduates engineers in Sweden with expertise in new areas.
” We have a clear objective that our research and development in Sweden should be a world leader, not least in the field of next-generation systems. In the short term we need to reduce the number of R & d services, mainly in administrative roles. At the same time, we intend to bring in new skills in new areas of technology. Therefore, we intend in the next three years to recruit around 1,000 engineers, primarily from colleges and universities, says the strategy and technical director Ulf Ewaldsson in a press release. The thousand is a bruttosiffra that does not necessarily mean that there will be a total of a few more employees in Sweden.
Ericsson has about 16 000 employees in Sweden. The proposed cutbacks include about 1000 people in the production, approximately 800 in research and development and approximately 1200 in other operations.
the Changes affect primarily the factories in Borås and Kumla but also the business in Gothenburg, Karlskrona, Linköping and Stockholm. The operations in Lund, sweden and Kalmar, sweden is not affected by today’s announcement.
the Plan is to reduce the number of employees through a combination of voluntary redundancy, cutbacks, and other options such as outsourcing. In addition to Ericsson reduce the number of consultants in Sweden, with approximately 900.
Negotiations with the unions are ongoing and the cutbacks will be phased in. The process regarding the majority of the business is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2017. For Borås and Kumla is expected the cuts to be fully complete in the second half of 2017.
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- By: Per Henricsson
- Category: News
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