{"id":65264,"date":"2018-11-26T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T18:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65264"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T21:02:55","slug":"students-take-note-of-this-gm-to-lay-off-15-of-salaried-workers-halt-production-at-five-plants-in-u-s-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/11\/26\/students-take-note-of-this-gm-to-lay-off-15-of-salaried-workers-halt-production-at-five-plants-in-u-s-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Students take note of this: &#8220;GM to lay off 15% of salaried workers, halt production at 5 plants in U.S. &#038; Canada&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2018\/11\/26\/gm-lay-off-percent-salaried-workers-halt-production-five-plants-us-canada\/?utm_term=.acd1f73ae62e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from\u00a0washingtonpost.com by\u00a0Taylor Telford<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpts:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Amid global restructuring, General Motors announced Monday it would reduce its North American production and salaried and executive workforce<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThese changes are part of GM\u2019s efforts to focus its resources on self-driving and electric vehicles, as well as more efficient trucks, crossovers and SUVs, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The company also said it will cut 15 percent of its salaried workforce, laying off 25 percent of its executives to \u201cstreamline decision-making.\u201d GM also said it will close two plants outside North America by the end of 2019. Those locations have yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC to students:<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Take note of this. If you\u2019re heading for the corporate world (and other arenas as well these days), be ready for constant change. Always keep learning in order to stay marketable. In addition, hopefully you\u2019ll be pulse checking the relevant landscapes along the way to minimize getting broadsided. Look for signs of what\u2019s coming down the pike and develop some potential scenarios \u2014 and your plans\/responses to those scenarios.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64858 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PulseChecking-Radars-DSC-Feb2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PulseChecking-Radars-DSC-Feb2017.jpg 539w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/PulseChecking-Radars-DSC-Feb2017-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GM to lay off 15 percent of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada &#8212; from\u00a0washingtonpost.com by\u00a0Taylor Telford Excerpts: Amid global restructuring, General Motors announced Monday it would reduce its North American production and salaried and executive workforce &#8230; These changes are part of GM\u2019s efforts to focus its resources on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,473,174,86,112,200,72,436,310,66,212,321,367,299,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-canada","category-career-development","category-change","category-corporate-business-world","category-corporate-universities","category-daniel-s-christian","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-student-related","category-surviving","category-united-states","category-vendors","category-workplace","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65266,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65264\/revisions\/65266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}