San Francisco, December 15:슬롯 머신 사이트 추천GM's self-driving car subsidiary Cruise has laid off 900 employees, or about 24 per cent of its workforce. According to TechCrunch, the layoffs occured to cut costs and attempt to revamp the company. 슬롯사이트œWe knew this day was coming, but that does not make it any less difficult 슬롯사이트� especially for those whose jobs are affected,슬롯사이트� Cruise president and CTO Mo Elshenawy wrote in an email to employees.
슬롯사이트œWe are making staff reductions that will affect 24 per cent of full-time Cruisers, through no fault of their own. We are simplifying and focusing our efforts to return with an exceptional service in one city to start with and focusing on the Bolt platform for this first step before we scale,슬롯사이트� he added. As a result, the company is reducing employee counts in operations and other areas.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Cruise Layoffs: General Motors Subsidiary Laying Off 900 Employees Day After Firing Nine Key Leaders.
슬롯사이트œThese impacts are largely outside of engineering, although some Tech positions are impacted also,슬롯사이트� said Elshenawy. The impacted employees will remain on payroll through February 12, 2024 and will be eligible for an additional eight weeks of pay. Long-term employees have been offered an additional two weeks슬롯사이트� pay per every year at Cruise over three years.
Last month, Kyle Vogt, co-founder and CEO of Cruise, resigned in less than a month after the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) suspended Cruise슬롯사이트™s deployment and driverless testing permits. On October 2, a pedestrian, initially hit by a human-driven car and landed in the path of a Cruise robotaxi, was ran over and dragged 20 feet by the autonomous vehicle. A video showed the robotaxi braking aggressively and coming to a stop over the woman.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Layoffs: Zerodha Co-Founder and CEO Nikhil Kamath-Backed Specialty Coffee Brand 슬롯사이트˜Third Wave Coffee슬롯사이트� Lays Off Over 100 Employees, Says Report.
The DMV order stopped Cruise슬롯사이트™s robotaxi operations in San Francisco just months after receiving the last necessary permit to commercialise its operations. The order of suspension said that Cruise allegedly withheld video footage from an ongoing investigation.
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