{"id":987423,"date":"2026-01-24T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987423"},"modified":"2026-01-24T08:24:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:54:51","slug":"ericsson-to-continue-job-cuts-ceo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/24\/ericsson-to-continue-job-cuts-ceo-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson to continue job cuts, CEO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish \u200dtelecoms equipment maker Ericsson expects to \u2060continue shedding jobs, CEO Borje Ekholm said on \u200cFriday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You \u200chave seen that we \u200chave reduced the headcount, for example, by 5,000 over the past year, and we expect to continue reducing \u200cheadcount \u200dgoing forward,&#8221; \u200dEkholm said in a post-earnings call. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier \u200cin January, Ericsson said it planned to cut up to 1,600 jobs in its \u200dhome country of Sweden. Cost-saving measures \u200dhave \u2060helped \u2060the company maintain profitability and post strong earnings amid a sluggish 5G market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish \u200dtelecoms equipment maker Ericsson expects to \u2060continue shedding jobs, CEO Borje Ekholm said on \u200cFriday. &#8220;You \u200chave seen that we \u200chave reduced the headcount, for example, by 5,000 over the past year, and we expect to continue reducing \u200cheadcount \u200dgoing forward,&#8221; \u200dEkholm said in a post-earnings call. Earlier \u200cin January, Ericsson said it planned to cut up to 1,600 jobs in its \u200dhome country of Sweden. Cost-saving measures \u200dhave \u2060helped \u2060the company maintain profitability and post strong earnings amid a sluggish 5G market.<\/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-987423","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\/987423","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=987423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}