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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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[–] homesweethomeMrL 13 points 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)