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Volkswagen Board Approves Plan for 50,000 Additional Job Cuts

September 3, 2026 at 20:46 EDT

Manufacturing
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Volkswagen’s supervisory board has unanimously approved Future Plan 2030, a restructuring blueprint that calls for an additional workforce adjustment of about 50,000 positions. The plan also targets a roughly 50% smaller model portfolio by 2035 and says the future production role of four German plants is not yet secured. Future Plan 2030 announcement

SEPT. 3, 2026 · FUTURE PLAN 2030

Volkswagen sets a 50,000-position reset

The board approved a broad restructuring plan covering jobs, models and production capacity. Four German plants still lack secured future production roles.

What changes on paper

50,000

additional positions

50%

smaller model portfolio by 2035

75%

less offering complexity

>500,000

vehicles of European excess capacity

The reset against today’s workforce

Each block represents 50,000 people.

Further positions

50,000

Current employees

~650,000

Scale: the additional adjustment is roughly one-thirteenth of Volkswagen’s current workforce.

How implementation moves

Board approval

→

Joint implementation

→

Plant scenarios

→

Future portfolio

Reception and open questions

Shared responsibility

Employee representatives linked the plan’s necessity with the need to protect workers from carrying the transformation alone.

What remains open

Analysts questioned whether the measures go far enough, while future production assignments for four plants remain unresolved.

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