GM’s Cruise to Slash 1,000 Jobs as Robotaxi Service Shutters
Vehicle Company Will Focus Cash and Resources on Share Buybacks and Its EV Business
A Cruise vehicle in San Francisco. As recently as late 2024, the company had been planning to take the driver out of its cars and charge fares in Texas this quarter. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News)
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General Motors Co. is cutting almost half of the workforce in its Cruise driverless car unit, according to an internal memo and people familiar with the matter, part of a previously announced plan to halt robotaxi service and absorb the operations into its broader business.
Several of Cruise’s leaders, including CEO Marc Whitten, will leave this week in the overhaul, the company revealed Feb. 4 in an email to employees sent by Cruise President Craig Glidden. The total staff reductions amount to about 1,000 posi…
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