GM offers buyout to "majority" of US white-collar workforce

[GeneticBlueprint]

Willing to try everything except make good cars.

[b_m_b_m_b_m]

2 hours ago, sblfilms said:

Yes, there are more (quantitatively) dangerous vehicles on the road, but relative to the same category 20 years ago, they are not more (qualitatively) dangerous.

 

If you were to replace every 2020-2023 SUV with the same make/model from 2000-2003, you would have worse death/injury stats due to much worse braking tech.

 

Another way to think about it is that SUVs today have a lower rate of death/serious injury for pedestrians than 20 years ago, despite nominally having a higher total.

 

That isn’t to say we shouldn’t move for safer design standards for pedestrians as we could lower both relative and nominal rates fairly easily just by lowering max grill heights and such.

I get that, but these vehicles will be on the road for 10+ years. Sensors will fail, they will be damaged, software will malfunction. And while yes these are safer than current 10 year old cars and the same will be true of new cars 10 years from now compared to this years new cars, the key thing is that these all do not fail safe, they fail unsafe! 

[ThreePi]

Moves like this really aren't a bad thing. it's only 500 positions and it's people volunteering. Plus, one month pay per year of service as severance is a damn good deal.

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

12 minutes ago, ThreePi said:

Moves like this really aren't a bad thing. it's only 500 positions and it's people volunteering. Plus, one month pay per year of service as severance is a damn good deal.

 

GM's white-collar US workforce contains 58,000 personnel.

[Brian]

6 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

GM's white-collar US workforce contains 58,000 personnel.

That’s a lot of middle management 

[Guest]

 

21 minutes ago, ThreePi said:

Moves like this really aren't a bad thing. it's only 500 positions and it's people volunteering. Plus, one month pay per year of service as severance is a damn good deal.

 

8 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

 

GM's white-collar US workforce contains 58,000 personnel.

It is unclear from GM’s statements how many volunteers they are hoping to get, unless I missed something. Obviously they don’t plan for everybody to take it, that’s why there is also an approval process. But the 500 jobs was the involuntary reduction that already occurred