The long stumbling Volkswagen-Tware daughter Cariad wants to delete almost every third position by the end of the year. Of the currently 5,900 positions, 1600 should be omitted by the end of December, a company spokesman confirmed on request.
The dismantling is to take place in a socially acceptable manner via severance payments and early retirement programs. Operating terminations are excluded by 2029. The company informed the employee at company meetings in Wolfsburg, Berlin and Ingolstadt.
The aim is to set up the company more powerfully and adapt it to its role in the group, the spokesman said. The software developers that are important for the company are therefore excluded from job reduction.
The conversion of the software subsidiary, initiated by CEO Oliver Blume (56) in 2023. “In close cooperation with the brands, we have improved the quality in the software and increased our delivery capacity,” said the spokesman. “The successes are visible.”
CEO flower favored cooperations
Unlike his predecessor Herbert Diess When it comes to software, flower increasingly relies on cooperation with external partners such as Bosch, Xpeng and Horizon Robotics in China Or rivian in the USA. After taking office, he had prescribed a complete strategy gift to the software subsidiary and also exchanged the Cariad tip.
“Cariad will concentrate on central cross-sectional technologies in the future: autonomous driving, infotainment, cloud services, data processing or back-end solutions,” outdated the new tasks. This means that the daughter will also play an important role in the construct of our global software strategy in the future.
In contrast, this rely on complete own developments and wanted to have the vehicle software developed largely. Because program codes did not finish in time, model runs occurred several times. The electric models were also affected Audi Q6 e-tron and Porsche Macan Electric, which were not released until 2024 with a delay.
As early as the end of 2023, Cariad announced that it would reduce the costs of 20 percent and also reduce jobs. At the time, the company initially left open how many of the 6,500 jobs were to be lost.