https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ges-ceo-preparing-job-cuts-110536583.html

NEW YORK (Reuters) - GE's new CEO preparing for aggressive job cuts. “The cutting is going to start and it’s going to be aggressive,” said the source, who had direct knowledge of the discussions. It was not known how many jobs would be eliminated... — read more 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecb-policy-idUSKCN1BB15J

GE is closing or moving all of the GRC foreign sites over to the businesses...that means you, Munich Bangalore and Brazil. AND they are cutting the NSK workforce by about 400 more heads. So when the folks on this site see the BS LinkedIn articles... — read more 

Thanks to Mr McElhinney and his CFO Tim Donovan our services business the once crown jewel is becoming a business that is quickly becoming a disaster for GE and more importantly for our customers. The intimidation and bullying tactics to magically... — read more 

[link] ​General Electric Co. is dramatically shrinking the number of contractors it hires to help handle its information technology, as the company continues to cut costs in an attempt to boost profits... — read more 

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/peterborough-general-electric-job-cuts-1.4263520

The work environment at GE Greenville is getting more toxic day by day. You can feel the constant tension in the air. The good news is a natural business correction is about to happen. The bad news is a lot of good people will be impacted by the... — read more 

over 30 years in the business 28 of those years at Aldine Westfield ( HSC ). Most comments I have seen on these posts should tell the tale. HSC is a non union facility although most employees ( hourly ) have a union mentality . GE introduced this... — read more 

So, I dont have any insider news (any HR people on here?) but layoffs are coming for for salaried and hourly and there will be alot of salaried jobs moved to regional centers and repeatable processes outsourced. The steam turbines and generators that... — read more 

what I really want to know is if they are actually coming and if so when and would it be a temporary thing or permenant

I'm writing because most people who read these posts are current or former GE employees who probably own GE stock. There were two important support levels for the stock price. The first one was $27, which was breached in June. The second was $25... — read more 

Hourly people will be offered Temporary Layoff Packages initially. They will try to reduce the workforce as much as possible through attrition. They want you off the payroll as soon as they can. The longer GE waits to chop your head, the more money... — read more 

Layoffs are coming not in December but more likely in September. They must get employees off the books by end of the year which usually can take 3 months or more. I do not know about hourly people but I know a pretty well positioned guy in management... — read more 

GE Power Layoff rumors continue throughout the campus of Greenville's Gas Turbine manufacturing plant and engineering. Problems with the latest H Fleet in the field are not helping. Cost cutting measures continue to consume everyone's daily... — read more 

Another GE move offshore, Tuesday the 8th, GE Rochester NY, announced that all manufacturing and support personnel will be moved to a China board supplier. approx 90 people will all lose their jobs by Q2, 2018. Engineering will stay on. Sad day for a... — read more 

GRC Saudi Arabia will be closing in August (with 2 months notice to employees) just within 2 years of its BIG BANG opening. This is ridiculous as some of the folks have just joined GE within the past 6-8 months leaving their previous jobs. This is... — read more 

was hearing of possible layoffs in December, roughly 250 hourly employees any truth to that

Are the h"s in the field that were having the combustion failures back up and running yet ?

In our group's last round of layoffs, neither our manager nor his manager had any say in deciding who was cut. (Or so he said at an informal gathering at Quaker Steak.) The level at which these decisions were made had no idea who contributed what to... — read more 

To some extent our GRC futures are up to us. Each of us has some choice as to what we deliver back to the businesses, and we need to choose wisely. If everything we touch creates a return for a business, the businesses will fight to keep us, one... — read more 

Heard that all international GRC sites might be eliminated. And total population in Niskayuna might be reduced to 500. It seems that General Electric is truly on a roll, but only when it comes to layoffs. Anybody know if this is true? The... — read more 

GE Global Research has laid off quite a number of folks, plus others are leaving on their own leaving many areas understaffed. Further some labs have been mothballed and there may be plans to close additional facilities in an effort to meet corporate... — read more 

About 1/3 to half of software people were laid off in the EC (now power) ATL office today. I learned it by a random meeting that wasn't added to my calendar until the very last minute. Employees were given a three week notice. A Ukrainian company... — read more 

The next round of layoffs is underway. All field engineers are being laid off August 27. GE started a new company called Field Core, and they are making crazy low offers to the current field engineers. All to save their asses. No thank you. I am out... — read more 

New app called 'Blind' just got a GE community. Its anonymous but will only validate your community with work e-mail. Just opened a few days ago it seems

All the top management are bean counters, for them, everything is resumed to a spreadsheet. They have no vision or clue about the product, all is resumed to reduce costs and increase profits, if taken to infinite proves impossible as your cost would... — read more 

Seems like a never ending reorganisation post the recent layoffs in late jan. Did anyone hear anything about the next round of layoffs at the research centre?

When GE leadership decided to implement the two tier pay structure they predicted the resentment that would occur between the two groups. However, in their mind, they calculated the conflicts would be insignificant in comparison with their long term... — read more 

I apologize up front as I also posted this in the Energy Connections blog but I wanted to cover as much territory as possible. With Mr. Stokes assuming command of the combined GE Power and GE Energy Connections units, what is the possibility (or... — read more 

I saw somebody mention as a reply to a thread that these are only temporary. Similar thing happened at General Electric Peterborough plant a few months ago, when forty folks were issued temporary layoff notices, and were back to work in two weeks to... — read more 

if you are still an employee that has vacation (LP band and below) they will pay (they are required by law ) your accrued vacation days out. If you are SP and above you are part of the PTO scam and since you no longer have any accrued vacation you... — read more 

GE is moving the Field Service and O&M teams to FieldCore, a company with 250+ years combined experience who only have a dozen people employed so far.... The idea is to move Granite, Legacy Alstom Field Services/O&M and GE into this organization. Has... — read more 

GE Power in Greenville, SC has started offering 60/10 packages today. Of course this is a precursor to what is coming soon. If they don't get the numbers down, then they might go lower to 55/25. Lay offs are coming this year. Be prepared.

This is from "Fresh Air" program that airs daily on NPR. The host (T. Gross) is interviewing Rick Wartzman, the author of "The 'End Of Loyalty' And The Decline Of Good Jobs In America" - there is a segment on layoffs and GE and Jack Welch are... — read more 

Nothing more to add here: Working Capital Solution, GE Canada - job cuts...

Previous episodes of economic reform only came about as responses to severe dislocations that challenged the existing order, threatened political stability, and compelled business and political leaders to initiate reforms sufficient to establish a... — read more 

Announced today for Renewable Hydro France 345 over 1000 Spain 135 over 147 Switzerland 100 over 240

Immelt ruined a once great company. Since 2001, GE Leadership has exponentially become more and more disconnected with the ground level as well as their customer base. Hence, they undervalue these who employees who are the core of the biz. Pardon the... — read more