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A major American auto manufacturer reportedly laid off about 1,000 of its employees on Monday, including about 600 workers based in the U.S. in a bid to streamline current operations:
General Motors (GM) is making cuts in its software and services business, which was recently put under the command of two former Apple executives in a partial retreat from a hiring spree over the last several years, according to The Wall Street Journal. Monday's layoffs stand as the most recent job cuts at GM, which reached buyout agreements with approximately 5,000 salaried employees in 2023 as part of a cost-cutting effort and got rid of several hundred executive positions in February of that year, according to Reuters.
[...] The layoffs are not related to a specific cost-reduction initiative but are instead a result of the company leadership's review of the business and an effort to find more opportunities for efficiency, a GM spokesperson told the DCNF [Daily Caller News Foundataion]. Monday's job cuts followed a decision by the two new GM executives from Apple, Baris Cetinok and Dave Richardson, to streamline the service and software business, sources familiar with the matter told the WSJ.
The spokesperson could not comment as to how many jobs were affected by Monday's actions but said that around 600 jobs would be affected at the company's global technical center in Warren, Michigan.
Previously: GM to Slash 1500 Jobs at Lordstown, Ohio Plant
Related: Tesla Lays Off 'More Than 10%' of its Global Workforce
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday August 21, @07:11PM (3 children)
Autoworkers at risk from automation... oh, the irony.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21, @07:50PM (2 children)
Reading between the lines of the Reuters story, it sounds more like they simply hired too many people, expecting that the electric car portion of the business was going to grow faster than it has.
The Warren Tech Center is a big campus, about a full square mile, including a small test track. 600 people will make a small dent in the employment there, might be a little easier to find a parking spot going forward...
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday August 21, @08:09PM (1 child)
Square mile is 640 acres, so one commuter car per acre, roughly...
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21, @09:20PM
The GM way is to hire and fire, and pay well while you are hired.
Culture at Ford is a little different, less likely to hire people when they need them (so staff is overworked when it's busy) but if you do get in then less likely to fire you when the business has a downturn. Ford traditionally pays a little less, but does have this tradition of "somewhat more" job security.