Laying of 10% of the workforce will boost the company stock. Ford has too much waste in their workforce.
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@3tn ah yes, let’s recall our last thirty years of experience and put it in an “agent” let me just rewind my brain and hand over the 60,000 hours of experience in a few months of process mapping as it states in the L1, that makes sense. Where’s the competitive advantage? A lack of strategy is not made up for by any level of cost savings - there, that’s more insight in a minute than $30m of salary gave you from the other guy, let’s take a cost savings…
The knowledge work can be done by an LLM. There's no H-1B equivalent or anyone I'm Chennai or Hyberdabad or whatever that will do a better job. Why don't they just make agents? Because right now tokens actually cost more because these labs can no longer heavily subsidize their usage. It will get to a point where it gets the green light though and they will discard H1-Bs and foreign labor even quicker then they did us. There are at least some laws protecting state side people. So enjoy it while it lasts receivers of the outsourced jobs...you too are pawns I'm the plan.
Oh and yes manufactured good will come back. Why? Because Americans, Japanese, and Russians I might add actually know how to work with their hands. It's been part of the culture for generations. India has no background like this. South America is coming along. But if there's one place American jobs don't belong it's India.
@pn it’s pretty obvious, they’re going to outsource the knowledge jobs overseas and bring production home. The government hasn’t figured out how to tax overseas R&D so I can see anything not requiring a physical presence moving to another country for lower labor costs to compensate for the manufacturing jobs at home. Then they can propagandize that they’re such an American company while they hemorrhage the higher paying jobs overseas. Padding shareholder and executive pockets one job loss at a time, how American.
@OP My neighbor works for Ford land. He works remote. He barely works. He is always outside aimless wandering his yard, blowing leafs, washing his car, playing with his golf clubs, etc during business hours. Basically every afternoon is him trying to find something to do outside. I'm sure there are others just like him that are doing 1/3 to 1/2 of a job. They could easily downsize people like him and just give someone an actual full workload.
@ja Ford is transitioning to military specs? If I was deployed in the field and you told me I'd be depending on a Ford to go into battle I'd just put a bullet in my own head.
It’s the same story over and over—ineffective management that never gets held accountable, while Ford keeps cycling in the same kind of lazy, unqualified “problem solvers” who are more focused on office politics and socializing than actually fixing anything.
What’s with every LL suddenly throwing out the word “Industrial” in every meeting? What exactly does it mean? Even Farley started throwing out the word this week in his press releases.
“My point is not anything against anyone, it's to be an advocate for a strong U.S. auto industry, an industrial base, and to really figure out our policy — both company policy and government policy — because the stakes are so high at this moment," Farley said.
Ford continually lays off people, then hires new hires at a frantic pace, and fills the holes with agency. When times are tough, agency goes...then later retires. Never ending circle of poor management of resources.
@hk correct. And that is why Ford is transitioning to industrial. Aka building to military and government specs. No need to sell to customers when the government will buy what you make.
Folks, the writing is already on the walls. Look at the Ford products. No one wants to buy a Ford. Ford products has a ton of safety recalls, poor quality, poorly designed, outdated, ugly, expensive, unreliable. The only people that buys a Ford are the ones that work at Ford.
LMAO. That means the remaining 90% of the workforce won't have to hide in order to keep doing NOTHING!
@d2 Are you talking about Mach E? You said Mustang and that is false!
@OP the number is more like 50%. But Ford always lays off the wrong people. Invariably layoffs result in organizational expansion and more hiring. Much of the hiring and bloat is hidden now as it is in India and Mexico. TBH most people’s 5 year plan does not include Ford.
@d2 What are you talking about? Where did you hear this false rumor?
Ford Mustang start 10% cut from top to hourly employees today to stay in business.
You misunderstand. This website is not intended to encourage layoffs.
Good bye west coast
@af Are you referring to the Ford family control of the Ford Motor Company through their 71 million Class B super-voting shares?
Let’s start with gutting the root problem with the entire economy, shareholders. There’s serious problems with these groups buying up companies and stripping them for profit. Should be illegal. Let’s also make individual stock ownership by government officials illegal as well, as it should be.
Looks like they are starting from the top. Bye Bye Douggie
Let’s take it all out of model e. There must be a ton of redundancy. There is also redundancy in Ford Pro.
Nice try, Doug!!