The crisis surrounding Anna Kinberg Batra has consumed 4,758 hours

The crisis surrounding Governor Anna Kinberg Batra began with Aftonbladet’s disclosure at the end of March.

Since then, the Stockholm County Administrative Board has put three manpower years into dealing with the storm.

At least 4,758 hours, according to internal documents.

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After the revelations that Governor Anna Kinberg Batra recruited a relative and let taxpayers pay for private dinners, the Stockholm County Administrative Board has been shaken by alarms about a poor working environment.

According to the union at the Stockholm County Administrative Board, Anna Kinberg Batra’s leadership style is “toxic” and employees have also raised the alarm that the governor uses “ruling techniques.”

Negotiations are currently underway regarding an internal investigation of the work environment at the authority and the safety representative has said that the authority is not functioning as it should.

55 people in 15 units involved in crisis management

Crisis management at the authority has required large resources. This is shown by an internal survey that Aftonbladet has taken notice of.

The survey is a mapping of how much time has been required by the authority due to the crisis and what consequences it has led to.

According to the survey, it is about 4,758 hours that have been registered by a total of 55 people in 15 different units at the authority.

According to the survey, this corresponds to three annual workforces.

A further 2,800 hours are said to have also been spent on unit meetings, union work and employee information about the crisis.

Codename “Magnus”

The report shows that the county administrative board introduced the code name “Magnus” for the work of handling the crisis vis-à-vis the media and the public – something they call the “crisis of confidence”.

A project group has also been set up to manage the work.

“We have had a project group with staff-like functions, but the authority has not been in formal staff mode,” writes Claes Lindgren, acting county director at the county board, in a comment to Aftonbladet.

The core mission is suffering from the crisis

Time spent on the crisis has stolen time and resources from the agency’s core mission.

In the internal investigation, there is talk of “crowd-out effects”.

Finance, HR, housing planning, growth and the environment are some of the departments that state that they have had to spend resources on the crisis instead of the usual work.

“The task of ‘managing and distributing the work’ for line operations risks suffering,” the investigation states.

“Rolls or reallocations of personnel resources can also mean that the tasks are indeed carried out, but with lower precision and/or productivity,” the investigation further states.

Management ducks questions

Several units state that the employees’ commitment to their work has decreased due to the crisis surrounding Anna Kinberg Batra.

16 out of 35 units at the County Board also state that work results have deteriorated.

Planned projects have had to be canceled or moved forward to deal with the crisis, according to the survey.

Aftonbladet has applied for the management of the county board and the governor.

Claes Lindgren writes to Aftonbladet in an email that he does not want to comment on the internal report because it is part of the negotiations currently underway between the union and the employer.

“Out of respect for the joint work of the parties, we do not have these discussions in the media,” he writes.