This is far from over.
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Why hire in Detroit when you can hire for 1/5 the cost in Bangalore?
Randy Mott is like Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars; always absent, but never far away from the action.
He’s probably close by st-----g the layoff strings for Arden and Barra….
Is Randy Mott still there? If so, there will definitely be more layoffs in GM IT. That’s what he does.
Going after the Engineering & tech people is ripping the bandaid off. But the real bloodletting won’t happen until between the election and end of year. This round was simply a warm-up kick to Cahónes.🦵😩 The next one will certainly take our breath away🫁🩺
As of lately, the Demented nature of GM has gotten worse. They want to keep all their employees guessing, and playing them off against each other like the bank heist in the beginning of The Dark Knight movie(Sad, but true) before reviews are given.
In all honesty, they are going to cut more in more areas of their IT(Cybersecurity, Reporting, Data Engineering, Infrastructure…etc). All of that can be done now through Outsourcing now, especially with cloud marketplace services. As bad as that sounds, GM’s SLT now has that splendid smile looking at that picture on the wall(ignoring the poor quality and how costly it is).
With the adoption of ServiceNow, that will just add more human sacrifices to their so called hidden salaried workforce reduction cost $$…whatever the heck it is.
Outsourcing seems to be making a comeback, as GM seems to opening up more conversations with some of the major outsourcing firms.
To add the cherry on top, GM has Mountain View. How they even plan on reducing their costs with giving people out there 250k salaries compared to say the other innovation centers where the same people cut were probably payed like 90k.
In the end, the SLT are coming out on top, as they get payed either way when the company profits or it doesn’t.
Bask in the doom.
Maybe they are making it slow and painful with the hope of creating voluntary turnover?
It’s an election year. Slow and steady until November 6. Then the bandaid comes off.
Hypothetically.
If they're going to do layoffs, if they're smart they'll rip off the bandaid and get it all done at once instead of dragging it out and destroying morale.
But they're not smart.