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GM lays off more than 1,000 salaried software and services employees (www.cnbc.com)
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  • 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.
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 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.