Audi plans to cut 7,500 jobs for 2029 In German territory, which means reducing its template in the German country by 14%. This reduction of the workforce, which will not affect the employees of the factories as the company has affirmed, seeks to improve the profitability of the company, which is not going through its best moment.
According to Gernot Döllner, Executive Director of Audi, the brand must be “faster, more agile and more efficient”, an objective that must go through “Personnel settings“The decision to reduce the template occurs after Audi deliveries fell 12% in 2024, in full competition with Chinese automotive and in the midst of enormous difficulties to undertake the transition to the electric car due, among other things, to the weak and unexpected European demand for these vehicles.
On the other hand, Audi has made it clear that the reduction of 7,500 jobs will be carried out Without applying layoffs. That is, it is likely that the brand applies measures such as pre -retirement or make the decision not to cover vacancies left by retired workers. In any case, with this measure, the waning of your workforce will rise to More than 40,000 employees.
Last year, Oliver Blume, CEO of Volkswagen, raised a road map to improve the competitiveness of the company that passed, initially, by closing factories in Germany. That caused the rejection of the unions and, finally, Blume and the workers agreed a reduction of 35,000 jobs in Volkswagen plants located in Germany. For its part, Porsche, another subsidiary of the German giant, plans to eliminate 1,900 jobs.
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