Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

I'm afraid it's passive layoffs for remote employees

Sounds very close to what tesla did...
Asked to return or quit now.
Later did 10% layoff...
I mean I can't think a single rational reason why GM wants return to work for everyone.
Is it not working? If so then did GM gave sometime to improve for remote work to be sustainable? Any evidence shared with employees on what was working and where to improve?
None of these happened in my 5 yrs of GM time. I mean I don't really care much since I'm local and max 20min drive anyway.
But we hired many folks from out of state for definitely permanent remote.
Why are pushing this sudden move without any warning signs or communication with employees?
What were those pulse surveys done for then?...
Only reason I can think is that GM going for passive layoff on remote employees.

Exactly my thoughts, @2rfj+1iRKhPb9

by Anonymous
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@1brl+1iUIQlco
The workers approved for permanent remote work are easy to replace, sight unseen.
They will be the second to go after the contract workers.

by Anonymous
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Soooooo happy I am out of this circus now!

by ByeGM
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Productivity is going to drop like a rock. People have been demoralized over the last two years with Covid, recession fears, layoff fears, etc. They were spoiled with the work from home arrangement where they could comfortably work 8+ hours without distraction in their sweatpants.
Now they go back to a crowded office. Elbow to elbow in an "open office"; no cubicle and within the small boundary of a "neighborhood" under the watchful eye of office Karens and their boss. Back to the zoo of water cooler gossip, endless meetings, angry drivers, snow, construction, and very likely - paranoid mask-wearing covidians.
It's going to be an epic sh-t-show.
It's quite obvious by the cowardly way it was announced that management expected anger, confusion and betrayal. They likely fully expect and desire severance-free quitting on a mass scale. I know most of us expected this.

by epic sh-t-show
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A very easy form of head count reduction. Easy-peasy Japanese-ey.

by W72
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Now, the workers who were classified as hybrid but work out of state or moved out of state, they're definitely getting screwed.

by Anonymous
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Supposedly, the workers approved for permanent remote work don't have to RTO...

by Anonymous
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