GM cuts IT staff, keeps hiring for AI-native skills
GM slashed 600 IT jobs while posting 82 openings for AI-heavy roles, a sign the real filter is shifting from headcount to AI-native skills.
General Motors cut more than 10% of its IT department, about 600 salaried employees, even as it kept recruiting for technology jobs that asked for AI-native skills. The openings pointed to what the company now values most: AI development, data engineering, analytics, cloud engineering, agent and model development, prompt engineering, and new AI workflows. This was not just a smaller IT shop. It was a deliberate swap in the mix of work the company wants done.
The scale makes the move harder to dismiss as a one-off cost cut. GM said it employed about 68,000 salaried workers globally at the end of 2025, including 47,000 white-collar employees in the United States, and it had 82 open IT positions on its careers site, including roles tied to artificial intelligence, motorsports, and autonomous vehicles. The automaker had already cut about 1,000 software workers in 2024, and leadership changes in software and AI accelerated the consolidation of its technology businesses. Across the tech sector, more than 150,000 jobs were cut at 549 companies in 2024, showing how common restructuring has become even as firms compete for the same AI talent.
For engineers, product managers, and sales teams at monday.com, GM’s shift is the bluntest version of a trend already moving through SaaS: AI fluency is turning into a baseline filter, not a specialty. monday.com laid out that direction in February 2025 when it said its AI strategy would rest on AI Blocks, Product Power-ups, and the Digital Workforce. By July 10, 2025, it had added monday magic, monday vibe, and monday sidekick as it pushed from work management toward work execution. On May 6, 2026, the company said it had become an AI Work Platform built around people and agents working together, with AI agents natively built into the product and configurable without a technical background.
That shift matters because it changes what managers are likely to reward and what teams are likely to hire for. In its first-quarter 2026 results, monday.com said revenue reached $351.3 million, up 24% year over year, and CFO Eliran Glazer said AI productivity gains inside the company could let revenue grow without headcount rising in lockstep. For product teams, that raises the bar on data, automation, and model-aware design. For sales, it changes the pitch from click-saving features to workflow modernization. The broader lesson from GM is simple: companies are starting to separate people who can use AI tools from people who can design systems, pipelines, and workflows around them, and that split will shape hiring, promotion, and internal mobility across SaaS in 2026.
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