荷兰政府提出AI相关的岗位削减计划
荷兰政府提出到2035年将中央政府 workforce 削减约2.5万个全职等效岗位，并将其纳入一项扩大AI应用的更广泛效率计划。政府的目标包括到2027年节省9亿欧元、从2035年起每年节省35亿欧元，以及借助AI实现20%的生产力提升。其他措施包括每年精简或废除至少500项规章、共用办公桌、出售闲置建筑、统一IT系统和集中采购。警察和国防部门不在此次岗位削减范围内。官员尚未说明AI将影响哪些岗位或服务；2.5万个岗位是拟议中的政府编制削减规模，并非已确认由AI导致的裁员数量。政府预计在2027年第一季度公布详细的AI生产力计划。
该提案把AI应用与大规模公共部门重组直接联系起来，同时引发了自动化能否在不损害服务质量、可及性、数据保护和公众信任的情况下降低成本的疑问。
- 25,000 Dutch government jobs will be cut by 2035, new plans say
- The Netherlands is looking to save €3.5 billion by 2035
- Selling off buildings, simplifying rules, and smaller desks will also contribute to the savings
The Dutch government has announced plans to phase out 25,000 jobs by 2035 in an effort to increase efficiency with the end goal of saving €3.5 billion ($3.9 billion), amounting to about 16% of the government’s total workforce.
According to plans laid out by Dutch State Secretary for Kingdom Relations and Effective Government Eric van der Burg, the cuts will save €900 million ($1 billion) by 2027 while AI will deliver increased productivity to take up the additional workload.
"We cannot keep doing what we did," Van der Burg said. "That is why we are going to make sharp choices for a central government that really works: simpler, smarter and smaller."
Smaller desks and AI part of savings plans
The plans hope to deliver a 20% productivity boost by using AI to increase efficiency, while simultaneously reducing the total government workload by simplifying rules. To that end, the Dutch government also has a plan in place to scrap or simplify at least 500 rules a year.
But AI isn’t the only way the government is looking to reduce costs. New rules will see pairs of employees sharing a single desk, surplus buildings sold off, and IT systems standardized.
While police and defense jobs are not being affected by the cuts, permanent advisory councils and advisory committees are not. The government will release new targets for the number of advisory bodies later this year, with current numbers sitting at 28 and 150 respectively.
According to Bloomberg several motions - albeit voluntary motions - to increase productivity using AI have already been passed. These motions are a catalyst for the resulting job and spending cuts, according to Van der Burg.
The Dutch government has seen a record number of central government officials, peaking at 160,000 by the end of 2025 - a rise of 41% since 2018 according to Bloomberg.