According to the adopted program, by 2039 Daimler will become a climate-neutral company, which means one thing – only electric cars will remain on the assembly lines. To do this, the concern needs to make large financial investments, and without strict savings this is impossible. One of the solutions for "tightening the belt" should be a reduction in the number of personnel.
Only at those plants located in Germany – and there are as many as 6 of them – there is a risk of reducing 20,000 people. Last year, Daimler CEO Ola Källenius announced a large-scale layoff program, which, however, (according to the company) is voluntary. At the same time, people are not just kicked out – a generous compensation is provided for leaving.
So, as Business Insider learned, an engineer aged about 40 who has worked at the company since graduation (that is, about 20 years) can count on a severance pay of up to 400,000 euros. More than 3,500 employees have already accepted such an offer to leave. At the same time, a company representative (the publication's interlocutor) emphasized that this number does not include employees who left Daimler under partial or full retirement. Otherwise, the number would be significantly higher.
Nevertheless, not all employees are delighted with the severance pay program. "We don't want severance pay," an employee of one of the Daimler plants told German media. In his opinion, the money allocated for severance pay would be better invested in the further development of the company, since the departure of a large number of specialists is fraught with the formation of "production gaps".
