Kleisterlee
SPIEGEL: Some 30 years ago, Philips employed more than 400,000 people — now it employs only about 160,000. Only 15,000 people are employed in the consumer electronics branch, the one with the highest turnover. Will this downward trend accelerate, with production being shifted to low-wage countries or outsourced?
Kleisterlee: Wait a moment. The comparison you’re drawing gives the wrong impression. Most of the jobs lost at Philips during the last 30 years weren’t in production. They were service-related. We had our own plant security, our own cafeterias, our own despatch department, an IT department and so on. These jobs haven’t disappeared — they’ve just been outsourced. They’ve moved to other companies, which have specialized on these services.
SPIEGEL: But at the same time more than 100 factories were shut down. Are other branches facing the same fate as your consumer electronics branch?
Kleisterlee: No. […]
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