最终可能将员工人数从10.7万人裁至5.5万人
中新社4月28日电 根据工会人士上周六的说法，由于移动电话网络需求下跌，瑞典电信设备生产商爱立信可能会将其员工人数裁至5.5万人。
这一裁员人数比爱立信迄今暗示的数字要多上数千人。该公司定于本周二公布第一季
度业绩，一般认为它届时将调低对移动电话设备市场的预测。
陷入亏损的爱立信是世界上最大的移动电话网络制造商。它去年曾宣布，希望把员工人数从2001年初的10.7万削减到今年底的6万以下，但从未明确说明目标数字比6万低多少。两位工会高层消息人士说，根据市场状况，爱立信管理层可能将员工人数削减至5.5万至6万之间。
移动电话网络的需求持续下降，而去年大部分销售商预计，市场将于2003年跌至谷底。工会高层人士说┱“如果他们周二下调市场前景预测，那么假如他们同时宣布新的节约开支措施，我也不会觉得奇怪。”但他表示，管理层迄今尚未开始任何新的裁员谈判。爱立信曾表示，由于在全球经济低迷的大背景下，网络运营商正暂停投资以改善收支状况，今年的移动电话网络销售可能会下跌10%之多。
(北京青年报)
Ericsson to lay off thousands more
By Reuters
April 29, 2003, 10:11 AM PT
Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson said on Tuesday it would cut thousands more jobs as the market for its products looked set to fall more sharply than previously expected.
The world's biggest producer of mobile networks had its 10th straight quarter in the red, with an adjusted pretax loss of $423.4 million (3.5 billion crowns) against market expectations of a $399.2 million shortfall.
Sales plunged an expected 30 percent year-on-year to $3.13 billion. Orders fell to $3.27 billion against a Reuters consensus estimate of $3.21 billion and $5.1 billion a year ago.
"The macroeconomic environment has become more uncertain with weaker short-term demand. Further actions are therefore needed," new Chief Executive Carl-Henric Svanberg said.
"Although first-quarter sales are likely to be the low point this year, I want us to be able to generate profit even if sales remain at current levels," he said in a statement.
Talk of deeper job cuts grew when Svanberg, who focused on margins in his last post at lockmaker Assa Abloy, arrived three weeks ago. The workforce will fall to 47,000 next year, from 52,000 planned for the end of 2003 and 61,000 now. Without the new cuts, 2003 would have ended with 54,000 staff, he said.
Half of the new job cuts will be in Sweden. The plan, to be completed in the third quarter of 2004, will cost $1.33 billion and shave $605 million from annual operating expenses and another $968 million off cost of sales. No particular area of operations will be singled out for the cuts.
Competitors such as Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia and U.S.-based Motorola also announced new but smaller job cuts in April because of the deteriorating market.
Investors see cost-cutting as vital as global demand for telecommunications equipment falls. Some operators are slashing spending or delaying the launch of ultrafast 3G mobile networks.
In its outlook, Ericsson said second-quarter sales would be up slightly on the first, but Svanberg told reporters not to expect dramatic changes as the timing of a rebound was difficult to predict.
Rivals also expect a stronger second quarter.
Ericsson also predicted mobile systems sales would fall more than 10 percent this year in dollar terms as operators cut investment amid economic uncertainty compounded by the war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak. It had previously expected a decline of up to 10 percent this year. The new forecast is more in line with that of Nokia and Germany's Siemens, which see the market declining 15 percent or more. Motorola sees a fall of up to 12 percent.
Ericsson Chief Financial Officer Karl-Henrik Sundstrom told a teleconference that sales of 3G WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) networks, in which Ericsson has invested heavily, would provide 12 percent of its mobile network sales this year and a third in 2005.
(www.news.com)
中新社4月28日电 根据工会人士上周六的说法，由于移动电话网络需求下跌，瑞典电信设备生产商爱立信可能会将其员工人数裁至5.5万人。
这一裁员人数比爱立信迄今暗示的数字要多上数千人。该公司定于本周二公布第一季
度业绩，一般认为它届时将调低对移动电话设备市场的预测。
陷入亏损的爱立信是世界上最大的移动电话网络制造商。它去年曾宣布，希望把员工人数从2001年初的10.7万削减到今年底的6万以下，但从未明确说明目标数字比6万低多少。两位工会高层消息人士说，根据市场状况，爱立信管理层可能将员工人数削减至5.5万至6万之间。
移动电话网络的需求持续下降，而去年大部分销售商预计，市场将于2003年跌至谷底。工会高层人士说┱“如果他们周二下调市场前景预测，那么假如他们同时宣布新的节约开支措施，我也不会觉得奇怪。”但他表示，管理层迄今尚未开始任何新的裁员谈判。爱立信曾表示，由于在全球经济低迷的大背景下，网络运营商正暂停投资以改善收支状况，今年的移动电话网络销售可能会下跌10%之多。
(北京青年报)
Ericsson to lay off thousands more
By Reuters
April 29, 2003, 10:11 AM PT
Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson said on Tuesday it would cut thousands more jobs as the market for its products looked set to fall more sharply than previously expected.
The world's biggest producer of mobile networks had its 10th straight quarter in the red, with an adjusted pretax loss of $423.4 million (3.5 billion crowns) against market expectations of a $399.2 million shortfall.
Sales plunged an expected 30 percent year-on-year to $3.13 billion. Orders fell to $3.27 billion against a Reuters consensus estimate of $3.21 billion and $5.1 billion a year ago.
"The macroeconomic environment has become more uncertain with weaker short-term demand. Further actions are therefore needed," new Chief Executive Carl-Henric Svanberg said.
"Although first-quarter sales are likely to be the low point this year, I want us to be able to generate profit even if sales remain at current levels," he said in a statement.
Talk of deeper job cuts grew when Svanberg, who focused on margins in his last post at lockmaker Assa Abloy, arrived three weeks ago. The workforce will fall to 47,000 next year, from 52,000 planned for the end of 2003 and 61,000 now. Without the new cuts, 2003 would have ended with 54,000 staff, he said.
Half of the new job cuts will be in Sweden. The plan, to be completed in the third quarter of 2004, will cost $1.33 billion and shave $605 million from annual operating expenses and another $968 million off cost of sales. No particular area of operations will be singled out for the cuts.
Competitors such as Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia and U.S.-based Motorola also announced new but smaller job cuts in April because of the deteriorating market.
Investors see cost-cutting as vital as global demand for telecommunications equipment falls. Some operators are slashing spending or delaying the launch of ultrafast 3G mobile networks.
In its outlook, Ericsson said second-quarter sales would be up slightly on the first, but Svanberg told reporters not to expect dramatic changes as the timing of a rebound was difficult to predict.
Rivals also expect a stronger second quarter.
Ericsson also predicted mobile systems sales would fall more than 10 percent this year in dollar terms as operators cut investment amid economic uncertainty compounded by the war in Iraq and the SARS outbreak. It had previously expected a decline of up to 10 percent this year. The new forecast is more in line with that of Nokia and Germany's Siemens, which see the market declining 15 percent or more. Motorola sees a fall of up to 12 percent.
Ericsson Chief Financial Officer Karl-Henrik Sundstrom told a teleconference that sales of 3G WCDMA (wideband code division multiple access) networks, in which Ericsson has invested heavily, would provide 12 percent of its mobile network sales this year and a third in 2005.
(www.news.com)
