@1jjh+1eY0N0La Ford is definitely bloated at the “leadership” level and in fact at all levels. There are whole areas that don’t contribute anything of merit. Within areas that do contribute something of merit there is significant percentage of workers who contribute nothing. In fact it is worse that zero contribution, as their existence is a net negative contribution, as their existence justifies the existence of headcount in supporting organizations (HR, admin, PM, management etc.)
The higher echelons of management don’t really care as long as they get paid their cushy salary.
I remember a business case studied in college long ago where Carl Ichan eliminated 12 floors of employees at ACF on a single day, and it improved the productivity of the ACF employees who were doing work by 30%, as they were no longer generating useless spreadsheets and having meetings with the non-value add layers.
Ford is like ACF was. You could eliminate 60-75% of the white collar work force (the non-contributors) and have instantaneous productivity gains. The problem is there is no Ford “leader” with the skills and acumen to determine which groups provide no value, and which employees provide no value. Instead they take the easy way out and allow the non-contributers to control the company, after all if they can bank one years salary, they are set for life.
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@1jjh+1eY0N0La - I'd reframe the original take on this as too many ineffectual managers and too few leaders.
To the previous poster, I respect your comments and that may be true, but there are too many onsite agency staff positions in Dearborn. Times have changed and we don't need all this trending and analysis. I suggest transferring that work to internal staff. It's time to right size and that does not mean more purchased services.
TO Previous Poster:
I disagree. We are not bloated in the manager levels. I would argue that the disarray we now have in the company is because we are lacking in the amount of managerial resources.
I do not think we should hire more outside executives and LL6/5/4/3 level management, but there are plenty of highly skilled candidates throughout the company that if career advanced could help disrupt our current path and straighten the disorder out.
Purchase service staff should be cut way back along with the Work From Home redundant managers who make a career on daily calls talking about useless trends and managing PS staff. Boated budgets. It's about time... Good to see Smart people are now realizing it.
Company can't function without PS. Similar to the relationship between Blackwater / Haliburton and the U.S. military.
Ford is constantly cutting or increasing PS and agency resources. Changes in one department are not an indicator of what will happen in another area.
TO the last commenter, had a meeting this week where the department is looking for open positions to move PS into to prevent losing them. If it hasn't impacted your group yet, it will.
Totally fake news. We have PS and they ain't goin no where's.
Is this place cnn now?
In my area, we used to have a couple of PS guys. We were told last week that we can ask for help to only one (selected already by the vendor company), but the hours were shorted too. The remaining PS guy should be training us, as my team should learn the tasks these PS guys were doing before. BTW, my NA team is also hiring (in India).
Praemonitus praemunitus!
I wonder if the upcoming Global Town Hall will address the headcount reductions and vaccine mandate?
Some departments already lost people yesterday.
Assuming @qom+1eY0N0La is OP ...
I think @rhc+1eY0N0La was questioning the proclamation "Purchased Services Layoffs Confirmed", not the never-ending head count reduction that everyone is aware of.
To first commenter, the when is now, and the source is it has been trickled down from on high since Dec! Several open positions just got cut in our area. Some parts of the company will see a hiring freeze and not backfilling as people leave. Others will see actual head count reduction resulting in people being laid off. If you don't believe that then you haven't been paying attention.
So. They don't count against our headcount -only count against non personnel spending. You stop spending against a purchase order. Nothing burger.
When? And source?