Thread regarding Ford layoffs

When in Fords history has management and bureaucracy been reduced?
Never that is when

There have been several fake flattening - by widening the management structure and having double reporting and dotted line reporting. On those they claim to have removed a level of management, but it is all an illusion. The number of LL continually increases.

I have lost count of the number of reorganization’s I have been through at Fords. Not a single one of them accomplished anything other than to advance the careers of the architects of the reorg and their friends and family.

Job bulletin on internal Ford HR site shows over 160 open positions. Many of them also showing up in external job sites. General Motors is also hiring... Seems like retirees getting replaced with younger generation with newer skillsets..... good sign for the industry. Ford will come back, if Mgmt layers are flattened...

Living under a bridge embankment is not going to sound like a new beginning to my wife and kids.

Remember, it’s not what happens but how you handle it. There are so many things out of our control—including the current crisis. Be patient, and don't forget to practice self-wellness. It's just as essential to protect your mental as well as physical health during this trying time. Rather than viewing the situation in a negative light, look at it as the opportunity for what it truly is—a new beginning.

If you physically/digitally do not have a part in hand of a future product in PD I believe you will be part of the musical chair arena come 2021.

Others who will be spared are launch support roles as these programs transition from the sketches - release - launch the funding dries up on the development end to fund launches.

They will not keep PD employees around that are waiting on future programs.

If engineers are disappearing mid-project, I'd hate to be on that project....it almost always means that project is in funding trouble. I was asked to find another job internally mid-year, because the boss I was reporting to gave me the head's up they were going to have more money cut before the end of the year.

Work in IT, and I was a victim of reorg (the infamous PDO reorg) where I was 'added' to a team that I had no choice in joining nor did they have a choice in taking/not taking me....talk about awkward.....they really did not want me and it showed in many ways.

It has been a c-appy two years since that happend, after that experience then going theough the bloodletting of 2019.....I fully expect to be shown the door in 2021. I am making a plan to reskill and/or skill up in some areas and start looking for work now. Not going to wait...

Just curiuos - what is with all the flowerly langauge at the begning of the post.....you over mediate this AM or what?

Direct hire are not supposed to leave unsend of year.