General Motors is cutting more than a 1,000 employees globally in its software and services division, a partial reversal of a hiring binge in recent years, Xinhua quoted The Wall Street Journal report on Monday.
GM has hired thousands of salaried workers in software and other tech realms in recent years. Traditional automakers are aiming to develop smarter vehicles that can be updated much like smartphones, it said. In June, GM promoted two former Apple executives, Baris Cetinok and Dave Richardson, to run its software and services business. Both men were hired last year under Mike Abbott, another former Apple executive who stepped down as GM’s software chief in March, citing health reasons.