Volkswagen expects to lose 25,000 jobs

‘Europe’s largest car producer Volkswagen says a shift to electric cars will force the company to slash 25,000 job openings in the coming years, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported, citing the carmaker’s head of human resources.
As vehicles with electric motors are made of fewer components than vehicles with combustion engines, “we will need fewer employees in the long-term”, said VW Group Chief Human Resources Officer Karlheinz Blessing.’
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