With the decline in sales in the global auto market, auto market this year, there was a buzzword –quot; layoffs quot ;.
at the end of September this year, BMW had broke the news of layoffs, in order to further reduce costs, BMW plans to lay off before the end of 2022 nearly 6,000 people at headquarters in Munich, Germany, more information will be released in December, currently not yet released detailed message.
is not only the BMW, just recently, Volkswagen Group’s Audi brand also reported the planned job cuts, plans to abolish employs about 5,000 people, as of 2025, a total of plans to lay off 9,500 people, while the Audi is currently in Germany employees a total of only 60,000 people, the size can be very large.
As the head of the luxury brand camp, Mercedes-Benz also did not escape the clutches of layoffs, in the near future, Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler planned layoffs at the end of 2022 more 1 million people (including 10 Percentage management) to cut 1.4 billion euros in spending.
the BBA cuts, in order to control the final analysis the cost from the downturn current automobile market, in order to reduce expenditure and improve efficiency, reduce costs by downsizing to optimize its internal structure in the art, after a kind of a good way. Facing layoffs, can not only BBA. In particular, BBA head of such enterprises, they clearly have seen the signs of what the new trends, there are many big brands began his layoff.
Hyundai: lay off about 1 million
Starting in 2017, the modern market in China the sales volume fell in a cliff-style, in the face of market downturn in China, Beijing Hyundai has also taken a number of actions, including layoffs, or even close the plant. Today in April, it announced the closure of Modern Chinese No. 1 plant, which also means that about 2,000 workers are facing layoffs.
That’s not all, as the shift in the global market and to accelerate the development of new energy technology and automation area, compared to the traditional production line, the demand for new energy production line workers far less than the traditional way. In October, the modern steamCar has announced plans to cut 20 percent by 2025 production and assembly labor, labor relations from the point of view of modern cars, 20 percentage means that about 1 million people have been laid off. While 20 percent plan job cuts, it is only the minimum standards laid off.
General Motors: a total of 15,000 job cuts
More recently, General Motors once again burst the news of layoffs, a message is displayed, GM plans to lay off in North America in 2019 totaled 1.48 million, while closing three plants in the United States, shut down a total of seven factories worldwide, which is General Motors since 2009 after the largest bankruptcy reorganization the scale layoffs.
Prior to this, General Motors Canada in September there have action layoff, when the temporary layoff of about 1,200 people, also caused a strike of nearly 50,000 workers caused.
Similarly, the decline in market demand, control costs on the one hand, and the other, too, that the global car firms will shift the focus to the development of new energy, compared to traditional production lines, more automated production line does not need new energy Like traditional auto industry and the size of the workforce.
Nissan: lay off 12,500
Nissan 2019 second quarter results, the first in the second quarter, Nissan’s global sales fell 7.5 percentage, but have seen a decline in operating profit up 70 percent year on year, significantly lower than market expectations. Meanwhile, operating profit is expected the full fiscal year 2019, Nissan will be reduced by 35 percentage for 150 billion yen (about 9.6 billion yuan), which is nearly 11-year low.
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data, allowing Nissan to accelerate the recovery plan put on the agenda, which, in order to cut costs, Nissan will lay off 12,500, accounting for global workforce of 1 percent, and completed 10 percent in 2023 production capacity cuts.
while Nissan car sales have fallen sharply, excluding fluctuations in the global automobile market, there are also strong yen, former chairman of the company’s management turnover led to confusion and moreA variety of factors.
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According to incomplete statistics, every three global car companies have an’re layoffs. Up to now, this wave of layoffs number of people affected has exceeded 70,000 people.
nothing less, we found that most of the global car giant enterprises have been or are in the pipeline layoffs, the market downturn perestroika on the one hand, this can indeed reduce costs, while on the other hand, in fact, is a new energy era we hasten to, do not forget, at the same time layoffs, major car firms also increased the introduction of new energy and talent such as automatic driving, the car behind major corporate layoffs, in fact, accelerate quot; new four modernizations quot; of a performance.
In contrast China’s car prices, in the face of industrial restructuring global car giant enterprises, in the face of new more energy, automation and automotive industry, will make a deal with it, this is a problem, but also all China will face the challenge of car prices.