Job cuts at Bayer: This is how the pharmaceutical giant is trying to get rid of its employees. Employees whose jobs are lost should be offered severance pay.

Bayer wants to use bonuses to encourage employees to leave the company. The pharmaceutical company is struggling with a bleak outlook due to a lack of promising box office hits. For years, the anticoagulant Xarelto and the eye drug Eylea brought billions into the coffers. But their patents are gradually expiring in various markets.