The federal employment agency of Germany estimates that over the next 15 years 800,000 jobs will be lost due to the implementation of Artificial Intelligence, said the president of the institution, Andrea Nahles, in an interview.
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10/11/2026
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A germany’s federal employment agency estimates that over the next 15 years 800,000 jobs will be lost due to the implementation of Artificial Intelligence (IA), said the president of the institution, Andrea Nahles, in an interview.
Some of the sectors that will be most affected will be business service providers and analyst posts in insurers and banks, for example, Nahles told the German economic diary Handelsblatt.
Nahles added that, according to studies of 2025, one in four companies in Germany uses the AI for some purpose and asked for more investment in this technology, but only where it contributes to increasing productivity.
Nevertheless, the chairman of the federal employment agency has ensured that, in parallel with job destruction, a similar amount of new vacancies will be created.
With regard to economic recovery in Germany, it indicated that it will be a while before its effect is noticed in the labour market and that it may not be until the summer of next year, as companies are currently waiting to receive more orders before hiring new staff.
On the other hand, Nahles warned of the massive problem that will represent in a few years in Germany the lack of skilled labour, since due to demographic change the country loses approximately half a million skilled workers per year.
In order to meet this challenge, action is needed to attract more labour from outside the European Union and make Germany a more attractive destination compared to other countries receiving immigration, he stressed.