Thread regarding General Motors layoffs

Retraining employees would be cheaper

Employers can spend billions of dollars restructuring their workforce to keep competitive with newer technology — but many executives do not even know how much this investment pays off, a new Wall Street Journal report finds.

https://www.businessinsider.com/retraining-workers-could-be-a-new-frontier-for-the-future-of-work-2019-4

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In Austin, all the managers came from Dell and HP, from Randy on down.

Neither company is known for leadership or innovation, so that explains their performance at GM.

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Post ID: @2ond+YIU1ttX

@YIU1ttX-gas you may want to reconsider using the word "leadership", as it suggests certain attributes that are different from "management". ;)

Show me a manager or executive that was not born & bred at GM. Dan Amman was perhaps the closest we've come to a true outsider, and Reuss was quick to befriend and draft him into his good old boys club. (keep your friends close and enemies closer, perhaps?). Product development management is the product of his nepotism, which doesn't bode well for the organization having "leaders".

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Post ID: @2iyh+YIU1ttX

It is about doing more with less and on the cheap. They cut far to deep this time and it will destroy the company from the inside out , Marry Barra wants it to be Google Motors and she will get her wish I guess. Maybe we really will be an I - Robot society one day and have machines do it all , hopefully I'll be long gone before that happens.

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Post ID: @2bti+YIU1ttX

GM has never been known for leadership or good judgment.

Top to bottom management.

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Post ID: @gas+YIU1ttX

seems like GM will continue hunting unicorns when it's easier to train their horses to wear horns.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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