Car supplier Bosch Will delete jobs on a large scale because of the intensifying crisis in the industry. In the German works of his supplier -based mobility, the company expects a further reduction requirement of around 13,000 jobs by 2030, Bosch said on Thursday. Until then, the cost of the nuclear division is to decrease by 2.5 billion euros annually, this increases competitiveness. “Regrettably, we cannot avoid further job cuts through the already communicated level,” said Bosch Human Resources Head of Human Resources Stefan Grosch.
Bosch cited the cautious demand at the car market mainly in Europe and the slowed market stroke of Electromobility and automated driving. Bosch has invested many billions here in recent years, and business is hardly profitable. Bosch is aiming for 7 percent return on sales for the car division – last year it was 3.8 percent.
Unlike usual, this time Bosch gave a number for the mining requirement before negotiating at the affected locations with the works councils about socially acceptable solutions. Grosch urged the upcoming conversations to a hurry: “The time pressure is great. Delays further tighten the situation.” The Feuerbach, Schwieberdingen and Waiblingen locations in the Greater Stuttgart and Bühl in Baden and Homburg in Saarland are particularly affected by the mining. Bosch also wants to save material and material costs and become more productive, for example, by using artificial intelligence. Head of division Markus Heyn said that Bosch Mobility could continue to prevail in the highly competitive global competition. “But now we have to create the prerequisites and ensure our competitiveness on our own.”
The works council and union criticized the plans and spoke of the greatest job reduction in the company’s history. There is no question that the situation of the industry is very tense, said works council chief Frank Sell. “A personnel loss of this historical size – without simultaneous commitments to secure our locations in Germany – However, let’s decide! “
The IG Metall requested the further waiver of operational terminations. Such a dismissal exclusion applies to the division by the end of 2027. The employees are massively disappointed after they had already made concessions to the preservation of jobs in the past, said Adrian Hermes, Bosch Group representative of IG Metall and member of the supervisory board. IG Metall boss Christiane Benner (57) found tougher words: “You kick the values with feet that Bosch has made successfully: reliability, responsibility and fair cooperation”, the first chairwoman of the industrial union attacked the management head-on. Benner announced hard resistance and called for quick negotiations. It is about the jobs, but also the industrial location as a whole.
Bosch has been shrinking for years
In the past two years, the job cancellations in the entire Bosch group have already added up to more than 13,000 at a dozen locations in Germany. Last year the number of employees fell by 11,500 to 418,000. The largest division is eliminated on mobility, with 55 percent of sales and around 230,000 employees in 2024 in 2024. Last year, the workforce of the division shrank slightly by 2.5 percent. By 2023, however, it had grown to 237,000.
In the Auto industry According to the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), almost 55,000 jobs were reduced in Germany in the past two years. Employment dropped by 7 percent to 718,200 employees. The decline of 11.5 percent to 236,700 employees was particularly strong for the car suppliers. The carmakers reduced the workforce by almost 5 percent to 442,600 employees.
The VDA had warned a year ago on the basis of a forecast study, primarily by changing electromobility, 140,000 jobs could be lost in the industry by 2035. Since then, the US import duties and the tightening of the crisis have been in China Add other risk factors. With all German car manufacturers, with the exception of BMWis a partly extensive job cut until the end of the decade. Also the large suppliers Continental and ZF Friedrichshafen Close locations and drive back employment in the coming years.