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German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe

https://www.ft.com/content/e345d51f-11f7-4d4d-8f09-86dd3a225597
28•JumpCrisscross•1h ago

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hn_throwaway_99•41m ago
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grg0•39m ago
But do they dual-wield?
superhuzza•38m ago
Yeah, the title is worded quite oddly.
emsign•25m ago
Only handaxes.
rwmj•31m ago
Not a scientific study, but here in the UK where we don't have tariffs against Chinese car manufacturers, there are loads of electric BYDs and Jaecoos (the "Temu Range Rover") driving around recently.
est31•20m ago
Yeah with China pumping state subventions into car manufacturing, they can outcompete any car manufacturer anywhere in the world. The leading battery technology is in Asia anyways.

The German car industry will not die completely, as the EU can protect its market from chinese manufacturers through regulation. But it will shrink and transform. Probably also back to fossil fuels (yuck), because there the Germans still have a lead (they are trailing with EVs).

Germany's new hot industry is defense technology.

rwmj•16m ago
They're also making cars that people want to buy for a price they can afford. Toyota aren't making any cars I want to buy (at any price).
emsign•26m ago
At least I hope they leave the corporate culture baggage that has ruined the German car industry behind and do not transplant it into other companies. In which you stick to your old guns and hope that politics protects you with tariffs against any future developments from international competitors on the car market. (It failed. Now the Chinese make better cars than the Germans.)
inigyou•22m ago
There is no chance that they will leave it behind.
netsharc•11m ago
Credit Suisse went down 2 years ago in Switzerland, flooding the market with finance and IT people...
sajithdilshan•8m ago
I remember seeing a video that labels these people as doing bullshit jobs. As an example in UPS the people that actually delivers the packages are the ones doing the real work. However between those workers and CEO there are like ten or more levels of management and all those people just sitting at an office doing basically nothing.

Same with VW or with any other traditional German company. Sometimes to justify their job there would create problems that doesn’t exist and come up with a solution

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German carmakers flood jobs market with managers after wielding axe

https://www.ft.com/content/e345d51f-11f7-4d4d-8f09-86dd3a225597
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