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What Siemens layoffs have meant for employees

Both American relocations on record were planned to leave some work at the original site. Siemens' Bartlesville statement, which News On 6 published, expected a small number of positions to move to a satellite office there and invited employees to apply for the jobs expected to transfer to Houston or for openings in other Siemens businesses, so following the work there was a hiring decision rather than a reassignment. At Flanders, the company's statement to NJBIZ said the site would keep making instruments for laboratory diagnostic testing and keep its R&D after the planned end of the production bound for Ireland, and it moved that planned end forward from September 2024 to May 2024. If your role is tied to work that's leaving a site, it pays to keep a written record of each date you're given, since Flanders' end date moved after the first announcement.

Siemens' March 2025 release drew its firmest line in Germany, where the release ruled out operational layoffs and said headcount would tend to stay stable as other areas hired, while giving no figure for the United States. Siemens had flagged the automation cuts at its November 2024 annual press conference, and the release blamed muted demand in China and Germany since fiscal 2023 for lost orders and revenue. By our arithmetic, the automation cuts come to about 8% of Digital Industries' roughly 68,000 people, and about 3,000 of them and about 200 of the charging cuts fall outside Germany. The release also said job placement inside the company would play a key role, and it said Siemens had more than 7,000 openings, about 2,000 of them in Germany. If your role is on the list, the release's line on internal placement is worth testing early against those openings and your separation date.

Healthineers' Flanders notices, filed as Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Inc., carry the newest layoff dates of any Siemens filing in our WARN tracker, running to September 27, 2024. Siemens owned 67% of Healthineers when it announced in November 2025 that it would spin off part of that stake, MedTech Dive reported, so the company that made the New Jersey cuts is one Siemens has said it intends to stop controlling. If a Healthineers job in Flanders, Iselin or Princeton ended for you, New Jersey's unemployment benefits page sets out the state's claim process, and the COBRA subsidies Flanders staff stayed eligible for are easier to judge beside how COBRA works.

Siemens' completion release dates the close of its roughly $10 billion Altair purchase to March 26, 2025, and Altair's merger agreement with Siemens Industry Software set terms for the employees who stayed, for a 12-month period starting then or ending sooner for anyone who left. The same section says its provisions are solely for the agreement's parties and that nothing in it restricts Siemens' right to terminate, reassign or demote any Altair service provider after the closing. If you joined Siemens through Altair, the agreement's employee terms ran for that 12-month window from the closing, so a job that ended later sits outside them.

Georgia accounts for 14 of Siemens' filings in our tracker, more than any other state, and 11 of them date from 1995 to 2011 under the names Siemens Energy & Automation, Siemens Industry and Siemens, at Tucker, Gainesville, Canton and Duluth, while Illinois has six. If your Siemens job was in either state, the Georgia and Illinois unemployment pages set out who qualifies there and how to apply.

A sourced history of Siemens layoffs

• March 2025, Siemens automation and EV charging cuts

  Siemens' March 18, 2025 release set about 5,600 automation cuts worldwide through fiscal 2027, 2,600 in Germany, and about 450 EV charging cuts through fiscal 2025, 250 in Germany, ruling out operational layoffs there.

• November 2023, Siemens Healthineers Flanders diagnostics cuts

  A New Jersey filing covered 300 diagnostics layoffs as Healthineers prepared to shift part of its Flanders instrument production to Ireland, MedTech Dive reported. A March 2024 notice for 162 Flanders positions belonged to that 300, according to NJBIZ.

• January 2018, Siemens plans Bartlesville, Oklahoma plant move to Houston

  Siemens said it would move its Bartlesville gas chromatograph plant to a Houston facility by September 30, 2019, in a statement News On 6 published, and expected about 100 positions to transfer, open to employees by application, with 36 eliminated.

What to do if you're laid off from Siemens

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Siemens's biggest hubs: Georgia, New Jersey, Illinois. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Siemens's hub states run: Georgia, New Jersey, Illinois, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.