28 June 2006
Written by Rainer
Ericsson want’s to lay off all over 35
Swedish tele giant Ericsson takes it’s slogan “taking you forward” to new meaning as it starts to “forward” it’s elderly employees. Ericsson announced in April that it has decided to forward it’s “old school” workers to “anyone else“. Ericsson’s CEO Carl-Henrik Svanberg (44-yrs, taurus) announced that they want these “old, worn out, workers with slightest hint of real-life know how, to step down and make room for the just graduated workers“.
Just few years before Ericsson had resigned most of the workers under 35. “Yes, I have to admit that was a mistake, but we are persistent in our trial-and-error-method“, wrinkly and already graying Svanberg admitted “but this is only the first step of our new Plan™. We are striving to make our image younger and what would be a better method than laying off all the old and hiring new young, urban, professionals? Soon after we have replaced the fir… forwarded employees, we will start the second phase and layoff all the workers over 28” announced Svanberg from a surgeons table.
Ericsson’s earnings before taxes on the first quarter was only 720 million euros
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2 Comments currently posted.
David says:
Rainer says:
Well they can’t. That’s why they are looking for “volunteers” with the “we-pay-you-(up-to)-year-salary” -package
Kind of ageist, I didn’t think commpanies could do that legally.