On September 2nd, local time on September 1 day, Continental Group, a global auto parts giant, issued a statement saying that it would continue to deepen the structural adjustment plan started last year.

According to the latest target, starting from 2023, Continental Airlines will save more than 654.38 billion euros (about 865.438 billion yuan) every year. This figure is about 500 million euros (about 4.06 billion yuan) higher than the amount planned last year.

In the process of structural adjustment, 30,000 jobs may be affected, including about 1.3 million jobs in Germany. Continental Airlines said that these affected jobs "will be readjusted and their workplaces will even be cancelled." In other words, about 30,000 employees of Continental will face the situation of "being laid off".

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In 20 19, in order to ensure its competitiveness and profitability, Continental Group formulated and issued a structural adjustment plan-"Bian 20 19-2029". This plan aims to improve efficiency and productivity, so that Continental can better focus on areas such as assisted and autonomous driving, networked driving and mobile travel. According to the original design, only 20,000 jobs in the world will be affected by the adjustment. But now, this range has increased by 50% than before.

Regarding the adjustment of planning objectives, Continental said that it was mainly affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, the sluggish global automobile production and the worsening economic crisis.

1. structural adjustment continues to deepen? Or affect 30 thousand employees around the world

In early 2020, the COVID-19 epidemic broke out and spread to the whole world. Global automobile production is also affected by this, and the economic situation is becoming increasingly severe. In view of this, Continental made a judgment: before 2025, global automobile production cannot be restored to the level before 20 17.

In this regard, Continental plans to make new adjustments to the previously formulated structural adjustment plan "Change 20 19-2029" and take additional measures to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

After being approved by the Board of Supervisors, its related cost optimization strategy will at least include two aspects: one is to concentrate production and research and development in the most competitive areas in the world; The second is to adjust the investment portfolio.

According to the latest target, Continental Airlines needs to save more than 654.38 billion euros (about 865.438 billion yuan) every year from 2023, which is about 500 million euros (about 4.06 billion yuan) higher than the previous saving target.

At the same time, Continental believes that more employees will be affected than previously expected.

Continental said that all the plans may directly affect more than 30,000 jobs around the world in the future. These positions will be readjusted in terms of work content and work place, or cancelled directly.

Of the 30,000 jobs that may be affected, about 65,438+300,000 are located in Germany. In addition, a large part of post adjustment will occur in countries with high labor costs.

At present, Continental has more than 232,000 employees worldwide and about 59,000 employees in Germany. Therefore, according to the plan, in the next few years, about 12.9% of the employees of Continental will be affected by the reorganization of the group.

Continental hopes to achieve 90% of the goal of the plan by 2025.

On the other hand, Continental also stressed that its current planning did not take into account new job opportunities. In Continental's view, the realization of the growth target in the future travel field may create employment space in technology and software research and development, including digitalization, assisted and autonomous driving, and zero-emission travel. From this point of view, it can be understood that Continental will add new jobs while abolishing old ones.

In response to this upcoming personnel adjustment, Ariane, head of the human resources department of Continental Group and member of the executive board? Reinhardt added that the Continental Group had held exploratory talks in Germany for some time before, and now the negotiations have entered a critical stage. "In terms of long-term costs, the smarter we save, the more jobs we can maintain in the medium and long term."

Ariane? Reinhardt stressed that it is impossible to provide employment security for all employees under the current circumstances. However, she also said that Continental Airlines is willing to discuss new transition methods, such as reducing employees' working hours and further training. It is reported that after the negotiations, the Continental Group will announce the results of the negotiations.

At present, all the central functional departments and business divisions of Continental and all the bases around the world are striving to achieve the goal of cost saving and optimization.

At the same time, the Group is also promoting the development of process automation (such as Industry 4.0), providing greater work flexibility and reducing labor costs. In addition, according to Continental's plan, those long-term unprofitable businesses will also be sold in the future.

According to the original design, only about 20,000 jobs will be affected.

The automobile industry has undergone profound changes in the past hundred years. Whether it is willing or not, Continental Group needs to transform.

20 19 Continental announced a new global plan at the end of July to strengthen its long-term competitiveness and ensure its profitability, taking into account new industry trends such as the increasingly digital working environment, the emerging crisis in the automobile industry and the accelerated change of powertrain technology caused by stricter emission regulations.

On September 25th of the same year, the board of supervisors of Continental discussed the strategy and structural adjustment plan of Continental in 2030, "Change 20 19-2029".

Initially, the goal of the structural adjustment plan of "Change 20 19-2029" was to reduce the total cost by about 500 million euros (about 4.06 billion yuan) every year from 2023. At the same time, according to this plan, if the first wave of structural adjustment, layoffs and factory closures fail to achieve the goal of saving expenses and focusing on new business, Continental will step up its actions-that is, lay off more employees.

Under the guidance of this goal, Continental has analyzed that there will be 20,000 jobs in the world in the next 65,438+00 years, including 7,000 jobs in Germany (at that time, the total number of employees of Continental in Germany was 62,000). By the end of 2023, it is estimated that there will be10.5 million jobs in the world, including about 5,000 in Germany. Obviously, this target figure has been adjusted.

Then focus on organizational restructuring. Continental 2065438+The meeting of the board of supervisors on September 25th, 2009 has made a decision to adjust the business contents of six production bases. On October 20 19 10, 1 1 0 and July 2020, Continental announced and updated the adjustment plan of the production base twice.

Continental Group's Structural Adjustment Plan

Up to now, the business adjustment of eight production bases/factories of Continental Group has been approved by the Group's Board of Supervisors. Among them, Rodin, Germany and Newport, Virginia, USA? In the news, Henderson, North Carolina, Spanish rupee and Mexican Nogalice will be closed directly.

In addition, according to the latest data provided by Continental, part of its structural adjustment has been completed. Since the end of September, 1965, about 3,000 jobs around the world have been directly affected.

Conclusion: Behind the cost reduction, transformation is the key.

COVID-19 and its subsequent influence will make the global automobile industry go through a very difficult period in 2020.

Faced with negative factors such as shrinking market, overall decline in production and marketing, and economic turmoil, increasing revenue and reducing expenditure and saving costs have become the same choice for many industrial chain players. Bosch, with Tier 1 of Continental, announced last month that it would lay off about 600 employees by not extending the fixed-term contracts and letting some employees retire early. Therefore, in terms of personnel adjustment, Continental's decision is not surprising.

What really needs attention is that behind this is the main line of a global automobile supplier giant, whose ultimate goal is "transformation", and reducing costs is only a representation and means. The torrent of "four modernizations" in the automobile industry will not stop, and the sooner it adapts, the more capital it can get.

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