On Wednesday, Volvo Cars announced in a press release that it notifies 1,300 officials and 300 consultants working in the Swedish market, most of whom work in Gothenburg and Skövde. The reason for the notification is that the company wants to accelerate its transformation towards a new market.

- We need to get rid of heavy hierarchies and leadership layers that have been created when we have grown so quickly for a short time. We have been working on this change for several years, but because of the corona virus, we are forced to speed up the process, ”says Stefan Elfström Volvo Cars press manager.

The exact nature and amount of the alert will be determined after negotiations with the unions.

The press release states that the background to the warnings is that Volvo Cars will in the future focus more on online operations, electrification of the vehicle fleet and self-driving cars.

- The corona virus affects us in the short term, but we expect volumes and growth to return. So we need to invest in our transformation and new business areas by reducing structural costs, ”says Hanna Fager, HR Director at Volvo Cars in the press release.

the text is updated.