GM Says The Biggest Problem Facing Hiring Is Finding People That Want To Live In Detroit

General Motors Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson says Detroit's financial struggles are making it more difficult for the automaker to recruit talent, and he believes the city needs to make significant changes.

"Fundamentally, reality is difficult sometimes," Akerson said Friday in a Detroit News interview here, where he was receiving an honor from his alma mater, the U.S. Naval Academy. "I wouldn't pretend to know what the best solution is. I just want a resolution, and I think most of the citizens of Detroit want a resolution."

Akerson noted that in righting its own finances, GM had to close 14 U.S. plants. Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC had to shutter factories, too, in order to survive.

 

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CarCrazedinCali - 3/26/2012 3:05:38 PM

+3 Boost

sounds like a MAJOR problem to me... that city is desolate I hear... yikes

quizz - 3/27/2012 10:15:13 PM

+1 Boost

Other than jobs, why else would anybody live in Detroit? Revitalize Detroit by turning empty urban buildings into hip multi-use lofts and maybe, just maybe people might want to come.

MercBasher - 3/27/2012 10:33:01 PM

+2 Boost

Then why doesn't GM move - problem solved