{"id":1119534,"date":"2026-07-30T06:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1119534\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T06:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:08:17","slug":"bmw-plans-several-thousand-voluntary-job-cuts-in-germany-by-end-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1119534\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW plans several thousand voluntary job cuts in Germany by end-2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz agreed workforce reductions affecting tens of thousands of employees, BMW is now preparing a voluntary redundancy programme in Germany as weak demand and pressure on profits weigh on the carmaker.<\/p>\n<p>Several thousand positions will be removed by the end of 2027, BMW announced on Wednesday (July 29).<\/p>\n<p>A person familiar with the plans expects the group\u2019s worldwide workforce, currently about 150,000, to contract by around 8,000.<\/p>\n<p>A company spokesperson said the agreement with the works council was limited to administrative and development divisions, leaving production operations outside the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Chief executive Milan Nedeljkovi\u0107 addressed employees at a workers\u2019 assembly in Munich the same day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz agreed workforce reductions affecting tens of thousands of employees, BMW is now preparing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1119535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2183,141160,2000,299,1824,897,2188,19178],"class_list":["post-1119534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-bmw","tag-carmaker","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-jobs","tag-volkswagen","tag-workforce"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1119535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}