[tejohnso]

> However, unfortunately, some of you will be informed that we cannot offer you a role in the new organization

What new organization? They're laying off ~10%, not restructuring the whole business, or creating a wholly owned subsidiary, or even repositioning their product. Is there some kind of legal advantage being exploited here?

[mingusrude]

There can be, laying off people in Sweden is hard and one of the ways to do it is to claim that there is no work for an employee and so doing a reorganization can make it easier to claim that. Sweden's also got fairly strict last-in-first-out rules when firing. The way the company is organized affects whether two employees are in the same "circle" and compare to one another.

[searchableguy]

What is a last in first out rule?

[floren]

Layoffs start from the most-recently-hired employee and work back by seniority.

[searchableguy]

This is required by government and why?

[sofixa]

To avoid companies laying off the most experienced employees and replacing them with new grads to lower costs as a regular practice.

There are ways of doing it, it's just slightly more complicated than just doing it directly.