Ericsson confirms: 3 000 lost jobs – financial times

Ericsson confirms that 3 000 persons given notice.

the Company’s operations in Kumla and Borås is greatly affected by the notice, said the company in a press release.

During the Tuesday morning featured Ericsson it big besparingspaketet, which means that every fifth employee may leave the company.

instead, Ericsson is now making a big bet on research and development, where Sweden will play a key role.

In the press release writes, Ericsson "now do a conversion of the activities and competence exchange in order to meet changes in technology, new customer groups and a continuation of the increasing proportion of software development".

“Significant cutbacks”

Ericsson will thus drag down the 3 000 posts in production, Research and Development (R & d) and sales and administration.

the Company also confirms that it intends to make “significant reductions in the operations in Borås and Kumla”.

Ericsson has about 16000 employees in Sweden and the factory covers around 3000 services, of which approximately 1 000 in the production, 800 in R & d and 1200 in the other activities. In addition, it will also pull down the 900 consulting services.

Ceo: Tough vengeance”

“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. Our focus is now on the best ways to take care of our employees in this transformation and support those who unfortunately may need to leave Ericsson to quickly find a new job, ” says Jan Frykhammar, Ericsson’s president and ceo in the press release.

As Aftonbladet told me about yesterday I have a source to SVT stated that the factory in Kumla will suffer, but if it is down completely or if the parts are linked to the new products will remain, is unclear.

However, the whole factory in Borås is likely to be closed down, according to information to SVT.

According to a source to Aftonbladet, the highest head in Borås right now a general meeting with the staff.

“does not Want to be process”

However, the want Ericsson’s press office did not confirm or deny if any factory is going to be closed down or if there is no meeting right now.

– Then we do not want to occur the process as it is the only thing we can say right now is that we will make significant cutbacks in Borås and Kumla.

From the IF Metall called the announcements from Ericssonss management for “unacceptable”.

“I expect constructive and solution-oriented negotiations now, everything else is unacceptable,” says Anders Ferbe, IF Metall’s president.

instead, it wants to see a plan for increased operations in Sweden.

“I hope the board and the owners stop the cuts and instead allows the new management to develop a plan for the expanded production in Sweden,” says Anders Ferbe.

A press conference will be held at the 11-time about the changes.

Text updated.