General Motors began laying off between 500 and 600 salaried employees in its global information technology operations on Monday, primarily in Austin, Texas, and Warren, Michigan, the latest in a series of workforce reductions at the largest US automaker.
The cuts were first reported on Reddit by several employees and later confirmed by a person familiar with the matter to CNBC, who detailed the number of workers impacted primarily across the company’s Austin and Warren technology hubs.
“GM is transforming its Information Technology organization to better position the company for the future,” the company said in a statement.
Affected employees were notified via short calls with managers and HR representatives throughout Monday morning, according to multiple posts by affected workers on Reddit’s r/GeneralMotors forum.
The Areas Hit Hardest
The Monday cuts appear concentrated in identity access management, platform security, quality and warranty IT, software and services, and the Teamcenter group within software engineering, based on posts from affected employees.
One affected employee in the identity access management group wrote that “most of IAM let go,” questioning who would now support access to GM‘s dealer, factory, and supplier systems.
Another in platform security wrote that the team “is basically all gone, including manager.”
The Financial Context
GM recorded a $6 billion charge in January tied to its EV investments, contributing to a net income decline of approximately $3.3 billion across full-year 2025.
The automaker’s full-year 2025 net income came in at $2.7 billion — well below its initial guidance range of $7.7 billion to $8.3 billion.
GM has projected 2026 net income of $10.3 billion to $11.7 billion as it continues what it has described as “right-sizing EV capacity” through reduced volumes and structural workforce adjustments.
The automaker is targeting $2 billion in annual cost reductions by year-end through a combination of buyout offers and structural workforce adjustments.
The company offered buyouts to 5,000 white-collar employees as part of the broader cost-reduction programme, with the company previously indicating that the buyouts would deliver approximately half of the targeted savings.
The 2024-2026 Layoff Pattern
Monday’s IT reductions extend a workforce-reduction cadence that has now run continuously across GM for roughly two years.
The pattern of cuts has been particularly heavy across salaried IT and software roles and hourly EV manufacturing positions.
In August 2024, the company cut more than 1,000 salaried employees in its software and services organisation, primarily in Michigan.
In November 2024, GM laid off roughly 1,000 people globally, including 507 at the Warren Technical Center.
The salaried reductions accelerated through 2025.
In October last year, GM cut more than 200 salaried staff at the Warren Technical Center, attributed to a restructuring of design engineering and the elimination of computer-aided design execution roles.
That same month, the company announced the closure of its Georgia IT Innovation Center in Roswell — a facility opened in 2013 — eliminating approximately 325 positions while offering some employees transfers to GM technology hubs in Austin, Mountain View, Seattle, Toronto, or Warren.
The Roswell closure became effective December 12, 2025.
On the manufacturing side, GM announced cuts to roughly 3,400 hourly workers across its US EV and battery plants in fall 2025, citing slower near-term EV adoption and an evolving regulatory environment following the expiration of the federal EV tax credits in September 2025.
The cuts at Factory Zero — GM’s flagship EV assembly plant in Detroit-Hamtramck — were initially announced as temporary in October 2025 before being reclassified as permanent in a November 20 state filing.
The 1,140 permanent Factory Zero layoffs took effect on January 5, 2026, eliminating roughly half of the membership at UAW Local 22.
In parallel, GM laid off approximately 550 workers indefinitely at the Ultium Cells battery plant in Lordstown, Ohio, with additional temporary layoffs at the Ultium Spring Hill, Tennessee facility.
Both battery plants began phased restarts in mid-2026 following equipment upgrades.
GM also idled Factory Zero from March 16 to April 13, 2026, placing an additional 1,300 hourly workers on temporary layoff status to align EV production with weaker-than-expected market demand.
International cuts followed.
GM Canada eliminated the third shift at its Oshawa Assembly Plant on January 30, 2026 — affecting 500 GM direct workers and up to 1,200 union-represented workers when including supply chain employees.
The Oshawa cut reduced the Chevrolet Silverado assembly plant to two shifts, with Unifor President Jeff Gray pointing to GM’s simultaneous production increase at its Fort Wayne, Indiana truck plant as the driver of the shift relocation.
Ottawa retaliated by trimming GM’s tariff-free Canadian vehicle import volume by 24.2%.
The Worker Reaction
Several posts described layoff notifications via short “Quick Connect” meetings with directors, with HR personnel present on the calls.
One Reddit user familiar with the fuel cell programme cuts from October 2025 wrote that they had similarly been assured days before that their role was safe.
Another affected worker, citing rough estimates based on team-by-team accounts shared on the forum, calculated that approximately 575 employees in IT and software and services had been affected by Monday’s action.
The figure aligns with the 500-to-600 range CNBC reported from a person familiar with the plans.
