This means that IBM will completely abandon Kista’s entrance, which is located next door to Kista Science Tower.
– We do a little rocking in our premises, which are partly connected to Stockholm’s city plans for Kista, says information manager Lennart Malm to IT24 about what is behind the move.
– There are big plans for Kista in general. I do not want to precede more than that.
Lennart Malm does not want to answer how much cuts affect the company’s choice of premises.
During the spring, IBM will abandon the Kista entrance premises on Isafjordsgatan.
At the end of 2013, IBM had 2,341 employees. The company does not want to comment on how the Swedish downsizing looks in detail, other than with the usual comment that changes are an essential element in the business model and that the company is also looking for new employees.
But it is clear that there are cuts at IBM. If you look globally, IBM’s workforce decreased by 12 percent in 2014. It appears in the company’s recently submitted financial statements. In total, the personal strength at the end of the year was discovered to be 379,592 people, which makes a decrease of 51,600 employees compared to the year before.
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A large portion of the cuts have been made through divestments, including of the $ 2.1 billion x86 server unit, as well as the $ 1.5 billion Global Foundries chip production.
There are also extensive cuts in the Nordic region. At IBM in Denmark, almost 100 people have received gifts, including after cuts at a department for strategic outsourcing in Brøndby. Benedicte Strøm, who is head of communications at IBM in Denmark, states that the downsizing is part of a global cut aimed at reducing annual personal costs by $ 600 million.
– We will continue to adapt to changes that take place in the market, she says to Computerworld Denmark.
According to information to IT24, it can also change on the personnel side in Sweden, but many can tell that there are no comments.
Have I become available for an office in Kista to suffice?
– We do not comment on what should, and only now nothing special has happened. At the same time, we have become more mobile and more people are sitting out with customers today. And in addition, we have many applications out there where we apply and a lot of people.
Who will take over after being in the Kista entrance premises?
– I actually do not know who moves in.
When’s the last IBM leaving the premises?
– It will happen in the spring. We do not have an exact date, but it will be nice to not have to run between the buildings.
There has also been talk that you want to sell the other IBM house that you are now moving to?
– It is also part of the upcoming announcement regarding the detailed plan for Kista.