Audi job cuts 2025: Up to 7,500 jobs are omitted - no production affected

Background: Why is Audi strokes?

Audi has with the works council on an extensive Job reduction program agreed. By 2029 Up to 7,500 jobs in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm. The focus is on administrative, development and other indirect areas- No job in production is canceled. The reason is Audi's strategic realignment on electromobility, digitization and new mobility services.

This is how the dismantling runs

• Period: mostly completed by the end of 2027

• Socially compatible solution: ~ 90 % of those affected go through partial retirement or early retirement

• No dismissals: Audi does not use classic severance programs

• "Target pictures" as the basis: Each department defines which tasks are still relevant in five years

Investments despite savings program

Audi also extends the Employment guarantee by 2033 and invested Around 7 billion € in the German works. With this:

• Modernized manufacturing lines

• Prepared new e-models

• Digitization & software competence are expanded

Meaning for the employees

• Planning security: Guarantee strengthens trust until 2033

• Voluntary options: Partial retirement instead of severance payments

• No further waves In sight, despite declining paragraphs

Classification

Audi reacts with this Job cuts for falling sales figures and change to electromobility. The decision to spare production jobs ensures production in Germany, while administrative and development tasks are redistributed. For e-mobility fans, this shows that traditional manufacturers also have to adapt structures to remain competitive in the EV era.