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Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories 29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories
8,610 - 9,810 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 September 2025
Employment effect (start)
25 September 2025
Foreseen end date
31 December 2030
Description
On 25 September 2025, automotive supplier Bosch announced further job cuts for several locations in Germany. In total, 8,610 jobs will be lost at its sites in Feuerbach (3,500 jobs), Schwieberdingen (1,750 jobs), Waiblingen (560 jobs), Bühl/Bühlertal (1,550) and Homburg (1,250) by the end of 2030. The job cuts affect employees in Bosch's mobility division, including production units, research and development units, administration and sales departments. The company will take up negotiations with the works councils and try to reduce jobs in a socially responsible manner.
Apart from the German job losses, further jobs will be shed abroad. In total, some 13,000 jobs will be affected worldwide. The company cites tough competition in the automotive industry, insecurities related to new tariff regimes and geopolitical challenges as reasons for restructuring its business. Moreover, demand for its products was lower than expected as new technologies, such as hydrogen, electromobility and automated driving, did not take off as planned. Apart from the job reduction scheme, the company was also looking into other possibilities to save on costs, such as increasing productivity by AI usage, reducing investments into new buildings and machinery, or making its logistics networks operate more efficiently.
Jobs are also to be cut in Immenstadt, Bavaria, where 650 positions are affected. Around 4,300 people work at this location. This brings the total number of job cuts in Germany to 9,260 positions.
Updated, 19/01/26:
It has now been announced that Bosch has reached an agreement with the social partners regarding the plans for the two sites in Reutlingen and Kusterdingen (both near Tübingen in Baden-Württemberg). Contrary to the original announcement in July 2025, which foresaw cutting 1,100 jobs at the two locations, the company now plans to reduce only 950 positions. As a result, the number of job cuts at Bosch in Germany rises to 10,210.
In addition, Bosch intends to invest 650 million euros in the sites by 2029 to focus them more strongly on the production and development of semiconductors in the future. According to the company, the job reductions are to be carried out in the most socially responsible way possible, through offers for phased retirement and early retirement, voluntary severance packages, internal transfers, and by not filling positions that become vacant. Around 10,000 employees are currently working at the two sites.
Updated, 3/2/26:
At Bosch in Bühl/Bühlertal, fewer jobs will be cut than originally announced. After weeks of negotiations, an agreement has been reached between the social partners. According to the employer side, 1,100 full‑time positions will be eliminated, about 400 fewer than initially planned. IG Metall, however, speaks of 1,200 positions.
According to Bosch, the jobs are to be phased out by 2030 in a socially responsible manner, using partial retirement, early retirement, and severance packages.
This reduces the total number of planned job cuts to 9,810.
Eurofound (2025), Bosch, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 203465, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203465.
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