Linda Lindqvist's company N4's head office is close to several customers in AstraZeneca's old premises in Södertälje. N4 manages systems and equipment in research environments. A company that is also located in other research-proof areas such as Lund and Uppsala.

It started with a shock

N4 was started in the dust by AstraZeneca's mass redundancies in 2012, which she and her co-founder of N4 involuntarily became part of:

- We had no meeting at all, so this meeting we had, all the thousand employees, was very special, a strange feeling, the air went out of one, says Linda Lindqvist.

Millions in sales

Certainly it was a shock to leave without work after 16 years. But together with other colleagues who were laid off, and with the help of the TRR Security Council, a nine-month planning period began. A plan that eight years later became a company with 65 employees and just over 60 million in sales last year.

Many challenges

Of course, there have been challenges for Linda Lindqvist when she and her colleagues switched security as an employee of the large company to self-employment. But that's not something Linda Lindqvist regrets.

- I think that basically I want to see opportunities. In addition, I realized that I had a fantastic education at AstraZeneca and that I could benefit from even outside AstraZeneca's gates, says Linda Lindqvist.