Germany’s Volkswagen is to cut thousands of jobs.

Via various reports, in brief:

  • Volkswagen responding to high costs and low productivity
  • VW is understood to be drawing up plans for thousands of job cuts
  • Outgoings are to be cut by around €10bn over three years
  • The initial expectation was that cuts would be more weighted towards non-German jobs, but that is not expected to cut costs enough
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