{"id":157203,"date":"2026-09-01T17:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/157203\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T17:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T17:47:10","slug":"volvo-cost-saving-prompts-flagship-tech-hub-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/157203\/","title":{"rendered":"Volvo cost saving prompts flagship tech hub closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"text-to-speech__button__icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wardsauto.com\/static\/img\/play.svg?313321260226\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n        Listen to the article<\/p>\n<p>            1 min<\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wardsauto.com\/contact\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Volvo Cars will be closing its flagship technology hub in the Sweden\u2019s capital city as it cuts costs and pushes for greater competitiveness,\u00a0the automaker announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volvocars.com\/intl\/media\/press-releases\/D1177979D7A4CB2A\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aug. 31 press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move to shut its Stockholm offices on March 1, 2027, is part of the company\u2019s plans to concentrate \u201ccompetences and resources\u201d in Sweden among fewer sites.<\/p>\n<p>Volvo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.volvocars.com\/intl\/media\/press-releases\/7075B277ABA124A9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">established the Stockholm tech hub<\/a> in 2022 with space for 700 employees, and it has played a \u201csignificant role\u201d in software development, artificial intelligence and digital customer experiences, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>There are 450 Volvo Cars employees currently working at the Stockholm office, and the company says that it will relocate most of the responsibilities to its headquarters in Gothenburg.<\/p>\n<p>Volvo had announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wardsauto.com\/news\/volvo-cuts-3-000-jobs-as-tariff-bites\/798873\/\" style=\"color:#467886\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3,000 job cuts in May last year<\/a> in response to trading challenges sparked by U.S. tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVolvo Cars will manage the process in close dialogue with employees and employee representatives,\u201d Volvo stated in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to the article 1 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[83],"tags":[131,132],"class_list":["post-157203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stockholm","tag-stockholm","tag-sweden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117197042437540900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}