It is Sweden’s Television reporting that 3.000 to 4.000 employees in Ericsson will lose their jobs when Ericsson put forward new kuttplaner Tuesday.
According to the channel to all or part of the factories in Kumla and Borås is laid down. The Swedish government should have already been informed about what will be Ericsson’s largest innsparingsplan ever.
With these cuts is, in reality, all production Ericsson in Sweden away, according to the channel. Further reports that the management will launch a major plan, which means that Sweden will play the lead role in a large investment in research and development.
Ericsson has according to the company, even 118.000 employees worldwide. The cuts that now comes will according to the SVT frame every fifth employee in Sweden.
the News from the SVT comes barely two weeks after the Svenska Dagbladet spoke of a internrapport they had gotten in. Where it came out that the company would probably lay down the two factories in Borås and Kumla as a part of the attempt to save money. Total jobs about 1.200 people at the two factories. In addition, cuts in research and utviklingsavdelingene.
Ericsson has 15.000 employees in Sweden.
From the mobile to the technology provider
Ericsson has for several decades been a leader in mobile technology and mobile networks. The company was in the 90′s one of Nokia’s biggest competitors, before the fins eventually dominated the market completely.
After sitting with nearly half the mobile phone market in the mid 90′s, it went gradually worse, and Ericsson created a mobildivisjon with Sony. Ericsson was sold eventually, and in 2012 took over Sony the last the shares Ericsson had in the joint Sony Ericsson.
Ericsson has continued to bet on after that mobileventyret was over has mainly been the evolution and development of mobile networks. Ericsson has been a supplier to the mobile carriers the world over. In addition, they have developed and sold various equipment and software for telekomindustrien.
Even though this has been a solid business for Ericsson is the cuts that will be presented on Tuesday, far from the first in the company’s history.
Analyst about Ericsson’s future: – Will be turbulent ahead
In march last year, the company announced a comprehensive process to cut costs and reorganize the company, where the goal was to reduce the number of employees with 2.200 positions. In July this year announced Ericsson that toppsjefen Hans Vestberg went off with immediate effect.
Then showed the chairman of the board Leif Johansson for His Vestberg had led the company through a significant transformation both internally and in the industry, but that the board believed there was now a need for a new leader when “the company accelerates the implementation of the strategy”.
In the second quarter of reported Ericsson a fall in turnover against the previous year at 11 percent. To among other things, meet what they described as a fall in investment in mobile broadband, the company shall in 2017 save nine billion Swedish kronor, a doubling from the previous sparemålet. The ongoing operating costs to be down from 63 billion Swedish kronor in 2014 to 53 billion by the end of 2017.
Discussion and rumors about what Ericsson will do has been running for a while, and the Swedish næringsministeren, Mikael Damberg, has already been out and spoken out in the media:
I think there are great expectations that Ericsson is clear that he sees himself as a player who will lead the development towards the digital running community, and not least when it comes to the important 5G technology, he said Friday to Today’s Industry.
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