It is mainly the small office in a small or medium-sized cities that are closed in the public Employment service’s major cost-cutting program, which is a consequence of the M+KD, the budget that the parliament adopted in december. 4 500 employees to be away, announced the AF in January.
Many small offices have quite a few job seekers, ” says Mikael Sjöberg, director-general of the employment service.
means that the agency closing more than half of the 242 office of the day is open to the public. The selection has largely been done with an eye on the availability.
A principle is to be found in the hubs. It should be easy to travel to the office we keep. We’ve looked where there are travel centres or shopping streets where people are accustomed to move, ” says Sjöberg.
to the public employment service will exist in some form in all the municipalities. The staff may be found on the site a couple of days a week in the municipality’s premises, or go out on a booked visit. So working AF already today in some 60 municipalities.
– In northern sweden for example, which is so large, it is not reasonable that a job seeker go collectively in maybe two hours or more to get to us, ” says Mikael Sjöberg.
The first offices in the stängningsvågen will hit again around the new year, believe Sjöberg. But nothing is completely decided yet.
” We’ve presented our intention. Now there are negotiations with our employee unions. We will also have a dialogue with the municipalities and others who we work with.
the Employment contact with job-seekers to be via the net.
– We see more and more of our clients in their home, via video chat, for example, ” says Mikael Sjöberg.
” It will be like to pay the bills. Very much is not done in banklokalen.
Many job seekers would like to see that it becomes easier to keep in contact with employment services at a distance.
“When we develop new digital services, we need to almost do not advertise them,” says Mikael Sjöberg.
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