940 jobs will be lost as a result of General Motors closing its Chandler, Arizona, IT Innovation Center.
Closure surprises the Chandler community, according to ChandlerNews.com.
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On October 31st, this location will close.
“Today’s announcement that GM plans to close its Arizona IT Innovation Center came as a complete surprise,” Director of economic development Micah Miranda stated.
“We’ve recently been working with their local team about higher education partnerships, mentoring, and a promotional video highlighting Chandler’s Price Corridor. With this unfortunate news, we plan to work closely with our workforce development partners to assist with employment opportunities for those impacted,” Miranda said.
Prepare for the staff meeting at nine o’clock! Erik Gronseth told the workforce the previous evening.
“There wasn’t too much of any forewarning of what to expect. Some of us jokingly thought maybe this was going to be along the lines of ‘meet some new coworkers,’ but it’s unfortunate that it turned out the way it did,” said Gronseth.
Gronseth, a standout employee, escapes being let go despite the wave of layoffs.
“That was a bit of relief, bittersweet relief, as we knew a lot of people,” said Gronseth.
Workers feel “bittersweet relief” despite the economic crisis. The blame for these difficulties is being placed on President Biden’s administration by his detractors.
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According to the Detroit Free Press, GM is adding 200 additional engineer layoffs to those it has previously made elsewhere, adding to the hardships already experienced in Arizona.
In a company-wide email, GM made the closure announcement.
“Today we announced the difficult decision to cease IDT (information and digital technology) operations at the Arizona IT Innovation Center at the end of October. This decision was not an easy one, but it will help to optimize our innovation center footprint and gain the efficiencies and effectiveness we need to have to continue to support the company,” GM’s vice president of information and digital technology, Stacy Lynett, penned a letter.
Kevin Kelly, a GM representative, discusses how the decrease will increase productivity in addition to saving money.
“We’re rationalizing the number of IT innovation centers we have in the country,” Kelly said.
“We’re keeping the other three. But as we look at efficiencies there were some redundancies and that’s why we decided to remove one of the centers,” he said.
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