Reuters: Technology News: Siemens cuts 15,000 jobs in six billion euro savings drive

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Siemens cuts 15,000 jobs in six billion euro savings drive Sep 29th 2013, 12:02 Tweet Share this Email Print People walk out of an office building of Siemens AG in Berlin July 29, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch MUNICH, Germany | Sun Sep 29, 2013 8:02am EDT MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Siemens is to shed 15,000 jobs over the next year, a third of them in Germany, as part of a 6 billion euro ($8.1 billion) cost cutting program, a spokesman said on Sunday. The announcement comes two months after the ouster of Chief Executive Peter Loescher who drew up the savings plan late last year. Europe's biggest engineering firm, whose products range from hearing aids to gas turbines, is anxious to close the gap with more profitable rivals such as U.S.-based General Electric Co and Switzerland's ABB. Siemens and its unions have reached an agreement over about half of the job cuts and a deal on the other half will follow, the spokesman said. He added that Siemens wanted to end speculation in the market about the number of jobs that are about to be cut. No workers have been laid off so far and Siemens has said it does not intend to make enforced redundancies, relying instead on attrition and voluntary severance deals. In Germany, about 2,000 jobs will be cut at the company's industrial unit and another 1,400 at its energy and infrastructure business, the spokesman said. Siemens expects to close the current fiscal year on Monday with around 370,000 workers, the same as last year. ($1 = 0.7385 euros) (Reporting by Jens Hack, writing by Harro ten Wolde; Editing by David Cowell) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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