Job Reduction in the Automotive Industry: the Situation Is so Dramatic
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Breaking orders from car manufacturers put development service providers under pressure. VW subsidiary IAV and Bertrandt delete jobs and look for new fields. This is not just about armor.
German industry is massively reducing jobs. The number one worry child is the automotive industry. There were as few people employed there as 21 years ago.
The ongoing decline in employment in the German automotive industry since 2019 was foreseeable, not least because of the roughly 25% drop in overall production since then. However, the decline is now significantly more pronounced than even the transformation to electromobility would explain. This is shown by a recent analysis from the Center of Automotive Management (CAM). According to current data from the Federal Statistical Office, only aroun…
The automotive industry was once a flagship of the German economy. However, the ship received a blow from politics. Historical lows This has a fatal impact – especially for employees. At the end of the first half of 2026, the industry had only 691,500 employees, as the Federal Statistical Office reported. This was 5,8 per cent and 42,300 people less than a year earlier. Thus, the decline was stronger than in any other large industrial sector wit…
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