Overview
- General Motors, which began notifying staff Monday, eliminated about 500 to 600 salaried IT roles concentrated in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, according to multiple reports and a company statement.
- GM said it is transforming its Information Technology organization and confirmed that certain roles were eliminated globally, with reporting indicating the cuts amount to more than 10% of its IT staff.
- The company is carrying out a skills swap as it keeps hiring for AI‑focused roles such as AI‑native development, data engineering, cloud engineering, model and agent development, and prompt engineering.
- Posts from affected workers describe brief calls with managers and HR and point to cuts in identity and access management that controls system logins, platform security, quality and warranty IT, software and services, and the Teamcenter engineering group.
- This move extends a two‑year pattern of white‑collar reshaping that included 2024 software layoffs and followed leadership changes after Sterling Anderson became chief product officer, alongside new AI hires such as Behrad Toghi and Rashed Haq.