---
title: "Drive Wire: Cummins Plans to Lay Off 2,000 Workers"
description: "Cars, Culture, and the People Who Make Both. Your Destination for All Things Automotive."
date: "2015-10-29"
modified: "2015-10-29"
authors:
  - name: "The Drive Staff"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/the-drive-staff"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/696/drive-wire-cummins-plans-to-lay-off-2-000-workers"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# Drive Wire: Cummins Plans to Lay Off 2,000 Workers

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Transcript:

In unfortunate news, Cummins has announced it will lay off 2,000 employees worldwide by the end of the year, which is about 4 percent of its workforce. Cummins says that a steep decline in the worldwide construction industry has caused a decrease in demand for their industrial-application engines, leading to the drastic cutbacks. About 500 of those job cuts are expected to happen in the company’s home state of Indiana.

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