{"id":985682,"date":"2026-01-16T09:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985682"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T05:16:04","slug":"ericsson-to-shed-1600-jobs-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/ericsson-to-shed-1600-jobs-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson to shed 1,600 jobs in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson plans to cut some 1,600 jobs in Sweden, the telecoms equipment group said \u200con \u200cThursday. Ericsson has been steadily reducing headcount over \u200cthe last three years to maintain profitability as it grappled with a decline in 5G spending and the impact of U.S. import tariffs. <\/p>\n<p>The company \u200bsaid the proposed staff reduction \u200cwas \u200dpart of global initiatives to \u200dimprove its cost position while maintaining investments \u200ccritical to technology leadership. <\/p>\n<p>Ericsson has submitted a notice to the Swedish Public Employment Service and initiated negotiations with relevant trade unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson plans to cut some 1,600 jobs in Sweden, the telecoms equipment group said \u200con \u200cThursday. Ericsson has been steadily reducing headcount over \u200cthe last three years to maintain profitability as it grappled with a decline in 5G spending and the impact of U.S. import tariffs. The company \u200bsaid the proposed staff reduction \u200cwas \u200dpart of global initiatives to \u200dimprove its cost position while maintaining investments \u200ccritical to technology leadership. Ericsson has submitted a notice to the Swedish Public Employment Service and initiated negotiations with relevant trade unions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}