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Ex-Worker Details Idle Shifts as Bosch Pushes 13,000 Job Cuts

A first-person account reveals shrinking orders leaving production idle, sidelining trainees.

Overview

  • The former employee says her fixed-term contract was not renewed after training as an industrial mechatronics technician, and she was reassigned to repetitive line work.
  • She reports that when orders fell, production lines often stood still and workers were told to keep busy with cleaning rather than skilled tasks.
  • According to her account, the night shift at her plant was scrapped in 2024, and another site in Ansbach leaned heavily on temporary agency labor.
  • She describes workplace stress over sickness thresholds, with meetings to curb sick days and warning letters sent once internal limits were exceeded.
  • She adds that early cuts targeted office roles through transfers to other plants, communication about the scale of reductions only became explicit in late 2024, and many colleagues left or moved by early 2025.