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| Dutch civil service to cut 25,000 public sector jobs using AI |
| 2026-10-28 |
| [DM] At least 25,000 civil servants in the Netherlands are set to lose their jobs to AI. The cost-saving bid aims to save taxpayers €3.5billion (£2.9billion) a year - and comes under plans to cut around 15 per cent of all government jobs over the next decade. Police and defence will be exempt from the cuts, which are driven by efforts to improve efficiency as the country strives to save €900million from its central budget by next year. It comes after staff hired by the Dutch government has grown by 40 per cent since 2018, with the creation of 46,500 new roles. The Dutch cabinet, under prime minister Rob Jetten, will outline next year how AI will be used to make the civil service 'simpler, smarter and smaller' by increasing productivity. Eric van der Burg, the state secretary of the Netherlands, said: 'We cannot keep doing what we have been doing. 'With too many rules, exceptions and procedures, we sometimes make it unnecessarily difficult for ourselves to solve problems.' He continued: 'Yet residents and businesses should be able to count on a government that does what is necessary. |
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