Overview

• Bosch confirmed a plan to reduce up to roughly 13,000 positions in its Mobility division by the end of 2030, with the large majority at German sites and a small two‑digit number at foreign subsidiaries.
• Management links the restructuring to weaker European car demand, slower-than-expected rollouts of electrification and automated driving, and fierce global price competition weighing on margins.
• Preliminary location plans include about 3,500 cuts in Stuttgart‑Feuerbach, around 1,750 in Schwieberdingen, the phaseout of connection‑technology production in Waiblingen by 2028, and reductions of roughly 1,550 in Bühl and 1,250 in Homburg.
• Bosch says it will seek socially acceptable solutions and negotiate with employee representatives, noting an existing agreement that excludes certain forced redundancies in the Mobility unit in Germany through the end of 2027.
• Works councils and IG Metall reject the scale of the plan and signal resistance, and today’s announcement comes after about 11,500 global reductions last year, including roughly 4,500 in Germany.