It's a new year, after all, I'm sure something is in the works...
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After the Detroit Lions miss the playoffs. Oh shet, that is every year?
How about some of the real Ford family, that collects a over market salary. Would they be hired on their own sklls?
Of course there will be layoffs this year, the revenue does not support this blotted structure. SRD was a joke. Company will never be profitable with this leadership. Just a total joke.
Probably just rumors again.
Be easy to give up the area it happened in otherwise with a few more details.
agency or ford?
Omg - what area - Body, Studio?
I saw them walking people out of PDC today - around 25 with boxes.
I really do not like hearing about reductions. Late last year I booked at trip to Hawaii for the holiday - just got back. Just after that booking that trip someone posted about up coming layoffs. Now I have to recover a bit from the trip and these rumors are starting again.
This is nerve racking to say the least.
In our group they fought tooth and nail to fit a template HR rejected at least once prior to accepting.
When it got down to brass tacks they actually created positions for GSR's in order to satisfy the ratio and save a shart ton of LL6's and 5's.
The LL6 to GSR ratio was a smoke screen for the last round of layoffs. In my area the ratio is still LL6 heavy but now the people of a certain age who were approaching a pension milestone are gone. If they were after the most expensive people I now understand why it appeared to hit so many well respected older workers . They had pensions or were about to be vested and their salaries were higher because of years of good reviews.
@12OyH69B-1wzv meant - will be looking for LL6's & up who are just under 55 years of age
and pension eligible
GSR - Heavy means dismantling their own fiefdoms which will not fit the template of GSR's to management ratio.
I believe they will be looking for LL6's & up who are just under 55 years of age however. These folks are truly "at will" employees.
Consultants will be involved, that way if everything hits the fan they can point their fingers to the consultants. It's the tried and true Ford management strategy.
Truth be told the consultants know this and don't care, they will be gone with their sacks of money.
I'm guessing they'll use a similar formula to last year's reductions: go with an outside consulting firm a la Boston Consulting and have them provide the list of names based upon years, pension, benefits, etc. that will allow the company to remove the highest-costing employees from within the working ranks.
I predict it will be done on a widely-ranging departmental basis where they say these jobs are no longer needed and the "non-essential" employees will be removed.
Lo and behold, those very same jobs will be refilled again shortly after the dust settles with much lower-cost employees and the company will carry on, minus all the pension-eligible employees. I have no knowledge of this–just a hunch–but I'm betting it will be very GSR-heavy this next round of reductions.
Not until Third Quarter. They will use it to try and offset the low sales in the first two.