{"id":1493,"date":"2009-01-09T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T21:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2009-01-09T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-09T21:03:47","slug":"gm-general-motors-new-plan-get-ready-for-huge-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/gm-general-motors-new-plan-get-ready-for-huge-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"GM&#8217;s New Plan: Get ready for huge layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent internal memo, General Motors&#8217; (GM) management has begun the grim task of preparing employees for the inevitable: Job cuts&#8230; MASSIVE job cuts.<\/p>\n<p>In order to remain complaint with the provisions of the $4 billion of &#8220;loans&#8221; from the TARP, GM is looking for ways to survive and restructure according to the government&#8217;s forced timetable.<\/p>\n<p>Now the plan is to re-engineer their entire business model utilizing the idea of Zero-Based staffing. While that may not be a new idea, it is one that is usually associated with a newer company. How will GM attempt to restructure their current operations from the ground up? Good question. Here is what they are considering..<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a title=\"GM Layoffs\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.moneycentral.msn.com\/topstocks\/archive\/2009\/01\/09\/gm-general-motors-new-plan-get-ready-for-huge-layoffs.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Here<\/strong><\/a>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ino.com\/info\/183\/CD3465\/&amp;dp=0&amp;l=0&amp;campaignid=9\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" src=\"http:\/\/ino.directtrack.com\/42\/3465\/183\/\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Free Trading Videos\" width=\"550\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent internal memo, General Motors&#8217; (GM) management has begun the grim task of preparing employees for the inevitable: Job cuts&#8230; MASSIVE job cuts. In order to remain complaint with the provisions of the $4 billion of &#8220;loans&#8221; from the TARP, GM is looking for ways to survive and restructure according to the government&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,42],"tags":[163,80,490],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","category-stocks","tag-autos","tag-credit-crisis","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}