Mary Barra, CEO and chair of General Motors. Image: GM
A source told SiliconRepublic.com that around 30 Irish jobs at GM are affected by the layoffs.
Coding platform GitLab is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs, with further plans to reduce its global operational footprint by up to 30pc.
“This is not an AI optimisation or cost cutting exercise”, said company CEO Bill Staples. “Operationally, we grew into a shape that was right for the last era and isn’t right for this one.”
According to the company, the restructuring will remove management layers, help reorganise R&D into around 60 small teams and rewire internal processes with AI. The company anticipates cutting its global footprint only in regions where it has a “handful of people or fewer”.
