Ford Motor Co. will cut another 4,000 white-collar jobs in North American by early next year as part of a painful restructuring that will be announced in January.
Mark Fields, president of Ford's Americas division, outlined the planned job cuts in an e-mail to employees Friday and at the same time gave a blunt assessment of Ford's operating weaknesses.
"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," Fields wrote. "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."
Ford, which started the year with about 32,000 salaried workers in the United States, said the "involuntary" terminations will begin soon and be completed by the end of March.
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