Daimler boss Ola Källenius is trimming the group for profitability and also wants to cut staff.
In order to sweeten the farewell to employees, the group lures with generous severance payments.
Stuttgart - At the Stuttgart car manufacturer Daimler, things are really going well again this year.
On Wednesday evening, the Swabians put the next exclamation mark.
In the second quarter, despite the rampant semiconductor shortage and the pandemic, the Swabians earned 5.18 billion euros operationally according to preliminary key figures.
That was around a billion more than analysts had expected.
In the previous year, the company had sunk the bottom line 1.9 billion euros due to Corona.
The rapture on Thursday was correspondingly great.
It is astonishing, summarized NordLB analyst Frank Schwope in an initial assessment, that "after years of complaining about high transformation costs suddenly almost dream returns are being achieved".
Daimler: Group boss Ola Källenius trims the company for profitability
The strong quarterly figures should by no means be the end. In order to make the group more profitable in the long term despite the billions in the reorganization towards e-mobility, Daimler boss Ola Källenius is also working on personnel. At the headquarters in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim alone, around 4,000 jobs, and thus every fifth job, are to be cut by 2025. Also in Berlin, where the company has its oldest production plant, 1000 of the last 2500 jobs are to be deleted. Across the group, there are reports that a total of 10,000 to 15,000 positions are available.
To ensure that the downsizing is as quiet as possible, Daimler has launched a severance pay program.
And that has it all.
According to a report by
Business Insider
, for example, an engineer who came to Daimler after completing his studies and is now in his early 40s can hope for a severance payment of up to 400,000 euros.
Daimler: principle of double voluntariness
The principle of double voluntariness applies to the gold-plated exit, which is why not only the employee has to agree, but also his superior.
But in practice, experience has shown that hardly anyone who succumbs to the lure of quick money can be held.
According to BI, more than 3,500 employees are said to have accepted the offer by now.
Many younger and highly qualified employees, according to the industry, are likely to take the money and then sign up for the competition. Above all, Tesla * is desperately looking for top engineers for its new Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin. BMW * and Volkswagen * are also happy to have good staff.
* Merkur.de is part of IPPEN.DIGITAL.
