Try living in Detroit..now you know how we feel here. At work the other day we all got our e mail from Mark Fields of Ford Motor Company..things dont look good. Again I am going to have to rant here..does everyone still feel like there is going to be jobs for all the kids growing up here in 20 years? and do you think it's high time we shut the doors and start taking care of our own here and bring lost jobs back? I may not have a job after the first of the year because of people not supporting America and American companies, and what is this going to mean for OKC? just when your economy was looking good and things were looking up. I am sorry people but it is time to **** or get off of the pot:Originally Posted by okrednk
Team,
As our plans for the Way Forward come together, I've
made a commitment to honest, open and immediate
communications with employees. This includes telling
the Ford team first about the steps we will take in
the weeks and months ahead to return our North America
business to profitability.
Our leadership team has put into motion the difficult
but necessary decision to further reduce our
salaried-related personnel costs in North America by
an average of about 10 percent. This will affect every
function, including our corporate staffs, and will
involve the reduction of salaried, agency and
purchased services costs equivalent to about 4,000
positions. We will announce full details of our Way
Forward plan in January 2006 and anticipate that these
salaried-related cost reductions will be primarily
completed by the end of the first quarter.
Separating members of the Ford team is not easy, nor
is it something we take lightly. As our leadership and
Human Resources teams begin to implement the
involuntary separations that are part of this plan,
their priority at every step of the way will be to
provide support for those affected directly by these
actions as well as for everyone else on the team.
A leaner, flatter organization will be part of the Way
Forward plan we announce in January. The Way Forward
plan will be built around three pillars:
- Clarifying our brands for stronger emotional
appeal
- Strengthening our line-up with more great
products
- Achieving improved quality, costs, growth and
profitability - all at the same time
The salaried-related cost reductions, obviously, are
part of the third element of our plan. The reality is
that the best of the competition is more competitive
than we are on quality and costs, more efficient than
us in their operations, and they're achieving
market-share growth and sizeable profitability all at
the same time. We can and must do the same.
We know this is a period of anxiety and uncertainty.
That is why it is more important than ever that we
accelerate the communications and provide our
employees with the candid facts about our business and
the actions we are taking.
We will discuss our plans in more detail in January.
But we wanted you to receive the first word about our
salaried-related cost-cutting efforts from your
leadership as quickly as possible - rather than
through the local media.
- Mark Fields
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