{"id":943552,"date":"2026-10-28T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943552\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T04:48:13","slug":"ai-news-netherlands-to-cut-25000-public-service-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/943552\/","title":{"rendered":"AI news: Netherlands to cut 25,000 public service jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Netherlands plans to slash about 25,000 government jobs during the next decade as part of an Artificial Intelligence<\/a> (AI) driven overhaul.<\/p>\n

The efficiency drive aims to save \u20ac3.5 billion ($5.5 billion) every year by 2035, according to Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Dutch government plans to cut 25,000 public service jobs as part of an AI-driven shake-up.\u00a0Remko de Waal<\/p>\n

The job losses, equivalent to about 16 per cent of the central government workforce, will be implemented over several years, according to a government statement. <\/p>\n

Detailed proposals about how AI could improve productivity and reduce government costs are expected to be announced by ministers in early 2027.<\/p>\n

The Dutch State Secretary overseeing government efficiency, Eric van der Burg, said the nation faced hard decisions about creating a smaller, more effective public\u00a0service.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot keep doing what we have been doing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The planned shake-up was announced after the number of central government workers reached a record 160,000 at the end of 2025, an increase of 41 per cent compared with 2018.<\/p>\n

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The Netherlands police and defence ministries will be exempt from the job cuts.\u00a0Peter Dejong<\/p>\n

Other measures to be rolled out include scrapping about 500 regulations annually, standardising IT systems and cutting advisory bodies.<\/p>\n

The defence and police departments will be exempt from the job cuts.<\/p>\n

This week tech giant Microsoft announced it is offering voluntary redundancies to 60,000 workers<\/a> as part of an AI-backed efficiency drive.<\/p>\n

The measure is open to employees in the US, Canada, Britain and India.<\/p>\n

The company, which releases its quarterly financial results on Wednesday, had approximately 223,000 full-time employees at the end of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Netherlands plans to slash about 25,000 government jobs during the next decade as part of an Artificial…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-943552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}