

BMW has shut its voluntary severance programme ahead of schedule after thousands of staff reportedly expressed interest, as the carmaker pushes to cut around 8,000 jobs worldwide.

BMW has shut its voluntary severance programme ahead of schedule after thousands of staff reportedly expressed interest, as the carmaker pushes to cut around 8,000 jobs worldwide.
Thousands signed up to be shown the door voluntarily, and somehow it’s still the workers who had to be talked into it. Nothing says “great British engineering” like a queue for redundancy.