Factory closures, wage cuts, and fewer employees—Volkswagen’s misery is currently unimaginable. Luxury subsidiary Audi is not spared from the misery. We already knew that the E-Tron factory near Brussels was going to close. That factory will most likely take the Q8 e-tron with it in its fall, but more cuts have to be made at Audi—in the workforce, that is.

Manager Magazin and Reuters report that Audi plans to cut around 15 percent of its ‘indirect’ jobs. This means it is not about people working on an assembly line, but about people from development departments, for example. In that branch, 2,000 jobs would already disappear, while Reuters calculates that cutting 15 percent of such jobs would mean the end of 4,500 positions in Germany alone.

Audi confirms that there are talks about reducing the workforce, but does not say how many people are involved.

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