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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
6,900 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 November 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
On Thursday 16 November 2016, the German industrial group Siemens announced the plan to cut around 6,900 jobs worldwide, representing 2 per cent of its global workforce. The job reduction will affects mostly the power and gas units. About half of the jobs will be lost in Germany where the plan is to help its power division stay competitive. Other 1,100 jobs will be cut in the rest of Europe and further 1,800 in the US. The internal restructuring will take place over several years.
For the latest restructuring see: Siemens Germany (11-05-2017)and Siemens Germany (17-02-2017) in the ERM.
Siemens employs about 351,000 worldwide.
Sources
16 November 2017: Financial Times
16 November 2017: bbc.co.uk
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Siemens, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 92592, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92592.
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