A total of 3300 points in Germany are eliminated by cheesemaker program . (Photo: www.siemens.com/presse) 
Siemens CEO Kaeser cleans up: thousands of jobs in the administration fall away, even in the energy sector, there are severe cuts. When the representatives of the employees cutbacks have been criticized.
Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser drives the Group restructuring with massive cuts and the deletion of a total of about 9000 jobs ahead. Worldwide jobs 7800 alone cost the realignment of the organization – of which about 3300 in Germany, such as Siemens announced on Friday. It is already known that in addition to disappear around 1200 points in the energy sector. Background is, according to company sources a need for adjustment.
Now Kaeser more concrete plans for the renovation of the energy and industrial group mainly affect the administration. “Our business concept Vision 2020, we want to bring the company back to sustainable growth and close the profitability gap with competitors,” said the CEO.
Nationwide most meet the planned cuts to Erlangen with 900 points. In Nuremberg, around 300 jobs eliminated, at its headquarters in Munich about 500 jobs.
In North Rhine-Westphalia it comes to a total of around 300 jobs at several sites, including Mülheim and Duisburg. The remaining 1,300 posts to be degraded in Germany, spread over a number of Siemens offices – including, of course Berlin. At these locations, the reduction
The largest group restructuring for 25 years
will probably have been less accurate figures to could initially not be called though. You will now enter promptly into discussions with employee representatives and constructive search for socially acceptable solutions, said the new Siemens HR manager Kugel. Redundancies should be avoided in accordance with applicable agreements in the company.
The IG Metall criticized the mining plans. Although the union imagine not opposed in principle to “reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and streamlining unnecessarily complicated processes,” said the Bavarian IG Metall district manager Jürgen changer. “We reject it but decided from that restructuring, as so often associated with workforce reductions.”
Kaeser had launched the largest restructuring of the Group for 25 years in May 2014.. The sectors-division of the business was tilted, the number of divisions reduced from 16 to 9. Medical technology is spun off, and the sale of non-core activities such as hearing aids division or the share in the home appliance manufacturer BSH is part of the concept.
The slim electric giant
The internal processes at Siemens to be streamlined and simplified be. Business oriented Kaeser the Group on electrification, automation and digitization. Finally, it ran for the Dax-heavyweight not round: In the first quarter of the current fiscal year (September 30), the profit slumped
With plans Kaeser will streamline the electric giants and make more fit for the competition and the. increase customer focus. At the same time the costs are to be pressed by one billion euros. The corresponding savings are in innovation, increased productivity and growth investments, such as Siemens said.
Thanks to the thus liberated investment is expected to remain roughly stable global workforce of 343,000 at the end of last. In just the first four months of the fiscal year for more than 11,000 people worldwide had been readjusted, including more than 1,500 in Germany, it said. ( dpa ) / (axk)
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