Overview

• The reductions center on the Mobility division with site targets including Feuerbach (~3,500), Schwieberdingen (~1,750), Bühl/Bühlertal (~1,550) and Homburg (~1,250), while Waiblingen’s connection-technology production will wind down by 2028 affecting about 560 roles.
• Management links the plan to weak European auto demand, slower adoption of electric and automated vehicles, and tougher global competition that have pressured profitability.
• IG Metall and Bosch works councils reject the cuts and vow organized resistance, demanding job protections and commitments to German sites.
• Bosch says it will negotiate site by site under significant time pressure to reach socially acceptable solutions, noting existing accords that limit forced layoffs at Mobility locations through 2027.
• The new cuts are in addition to a previously communicated reduction of about 9,000 domestic positions, bringing recent announced reductions to roughly 22,000 jobs according to media reports.