On May 11, 2026, General Motors confirmed it had begun cutting roughly 500 to 600 salaried Information Technology workers at its offices in Austin, Texas and Warren, Michigan. Reductions started Monday and were announced as part of a broader push to trim costs and reshape the automaker's technology workforce with employees who carry different skill sets.
The May round is the second major workforce reduction at GM in 2026. In January the company cut 1,140 hourly workers at its Factory Zero EV plant in Detroit, citing slow EV adoption and the wind-down of the Cruise autonomous driving program. With the May IT cuts, GM has now reduced its 2026 headcount by roughly 1,740 people, or about 1.1% of its 163,000 global workforce.
Despite the cuts, GM said it is still actively hiring in other technology areas, with dozens of open IT roles in artificial intelligence, motorsports software, and autonomous vehicles. The company has routinely re-evaluated its salaried workforce based on expected needs and skill mix, and last October eliminated more than 200 Computer-Aided Design engineers in a similar restructuring move.