Mobility, Bosch Digital, Global Business Services and Global Real Estate move into separate GmbHs, with about 62,500 employees transferring and operations starting on 1 August 2027.
Tagesschau reports that Bosch has announced more than 20,000 job cuts in Germany, mainly in Mobility, while the company now says it plans no additional cuts.
Mobility booked 55.8 billion euros in sales in 2025, about 60 percent of group revenue of 91 billion euros, according to Handelsblatt and N-tv.
Robert Bosch GmbH is reorganising its structure in Germany so that its Mobility division and three central service areas become separate limited-liability companies. The service areas are Bosch Digital, Global Business Services and Global Real Estate. Bosch announced the move on Thursday, 22 October 2026, saying that about 62,500 employees will move into the new companies and that their existing contracts transfer with them. The parent company will mainly act as holding company and headquarters, together with central research, and N-tv reports that about 3,000 staff will remain there. The new companies start operating on 1 August 2027, and the whole process is to be carried out step by step until the end of 2027.
Bosch wants to become faster and more flexible in the face of pressure from Chinese competitors and the shift to electric mobility. Mobility is the group's largest division, with sales of 55.8 billion euros in 2025, roughly 60 percent of group revenue of 91 billion euros in the same year. Christian Fischer, the new Bosch chief executive, had hinted at the restructuring in an interview with Handelsblatt in early October. He called the change a milestone and said 'I want to simplify Bosch radically'.
“We need to bring innovations to market even faster, noticeably simplify structures and processes, and generally pick up speed to defend our competitiveness.”
Bosch has also been losing ground. The company told the market in June that it was no longer competitive in many areas. Thousands of jobs are set to disappear in the supplier division in the coming years, and cuts are also planned at the household appliance unit BSH and the power tools division. Last year the company posted a loss for the first time since 2009.
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Employment contracts move to the new companies unchanged, and Bosch says working conditions should stay the same. Bosch puts the number of employees affected at 62,500, although one later passage of the tagesschau report gives about 63,000. Tagesschau reports that Bosch plans to cut more than 20,000 jobs in Germany, mainly in Mobility. Frank Sell, chair of the group works council at Bosch Mobility Solutions, said the employee representatives want to accompany the process closely, both critically and constructively. He stressed that the restructuring must not be carried out at the expense of the workforce. Bosch said on Thursday that it does not plan additional job cuts and that a stock market listing is not planned.
Bosch says the new structure should give Mobility more autonomy, faster decisions and easier partnerships in parts of the business. The central holding will keep group financing and support all operating units in realising their full potential. The rules apply only to Germany, because the foreign subsidiaries almost all have their own legal forms and different organisational set-ups. Handelsblatt says untangling those structures would be very complex.
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Robert Bosch GmbH will move its Mobility division and three central service areas into separate GmbHs, leaving the parent company as headquarters and research centre. About 62,500 employees will transfer with their existing contracts, and the new companies start on 1 August 2027.
AI text based on reports by tagesschau.de, N-tv, Süddeutsche Zeitung and other publishers. Published .