GM is laying off more than 1,000 salaried employees in its software and services unit following a review to streamline the operations, CNBC has learned.
  • The layoffs include roughly 600 jobs at General Motors’ tech campus near Detroit.
  • The layoffs represent about 1.3% of the company’s global salaried workforce of 76,000 as of the end of last year.
  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    201·
    4 months ago

    Were these the employees GM tasked to build a custom infotainment system to replace CarPlay?

    • st3ph3nEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      The thing nobody wants, excellent.

    • altec
      4·
      4 months ago

      There were also cuts in other software areas. My team propulsion controls for BEVs, and we lost a couple people unexpectedly.

      • reddig33@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        I hate to hear that. Propulsion controls is not a department I’d want to be making cuts in.

        • SupraMario@lemmy.world
          1·
          4 months ago

          Yea but didn’t you know, you only need a few nerds, they don’t make any money for the company. IT always cost money.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    14·
    4 months ago

    The software and services division covers a wide variety of areas for the automaker, including infotainment, its OnStar brand, and emerging areas such as subscriptions and other vehicle features and development.

    So “Infotainment” the CarPlay/Android Auto replacement, OnStar the thing that literally nobody wanted ever, and “subscriptions” which is the worst idea I have heard of in decades. You “buy” the car, but then most of its features are behind a paywall?!?!?

    This is another example of employees reaping the consequences of executive’s moronic ideas.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    141·
    4 months ago

    They’re not cutting those jobs. They’re just firing the US staff.

    Those jobs are being prepared to hire in India / Romania / Other in approximately 2 months.

    (I don’t know that for a fact, I’m just, cynically, saying that’s the trend)

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 months ago

    Unlikely, but is this a revision of theft of ownership from neo digital feudalism? Will new cars exist again for purchase? The death of vehicle ownership is the linchpin of a much larger scale wealth disparity gap in an apocalyptic dystopian future. At the present, new cars are worthless in a future second hand market. They are not economically reparable for a 3rd party dealerships business model and the way auction houses must operate. This is an absolutely vital rung for low end automobile access for people with bad or no credit, or incomes that are less conventional like many forms of self employment. These types of car dealers are not carrying anything newer on their lots right now. That market is dying and it will completely isolate this segment of the population in severe poverty.