Engineering firm Rolls-Royce is to cut 4,600 jobs over the next two years as part of a major reorganisation.
Middle managers and back-office staff are to bear the brunt of the cuts, which are expected to hit its Derby base hard.
The company is refocusing its business on civil aerospace, defence and power systems.
About a third of the job cuts are expected to happen by the end of this year, Rolls-Royce said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44479410
I'm not sure I'll ever really understand the appeal of straightforward ultra-luxury cars. If I'm getting a comfy car, I'd also want it to be fast, or powerful, or electric, or something interesting. A normal sedan that just happens to have tons of amenities and hand-stitched, imported-direct-from-Proxima-Centauri leather upholstery seems so boring to me.
Middle managers and back-office staff are to bear the brunt of the cuts
Good, Middle managers shouldn't exist.
Uhhh.. you realise that Rolls Royce, and Rolls Royce Motors split decades ago right? Rolls Royce is the aerospace company, making engines for aircraft and such, which split off the car bit in 1973, and is now owned by BMW.
RR really missed the boat on composites and fell 10-20 years behind GE Pratt and Safran, they've been playing catchup ever since
This is stupid. Middle managers are important for organizing staff and managing labor efficiency, also quite important for translating macro level direction to the relevant parts of the companies they oversee.
Rolls Royce's are powerful though lol
The Ghost, Wraith and Phantom all have twin turbo V12s with around 600hp
Sure, in theory. That's almost never how it hashes out in practice. Given the profound disconnect between said management and said labor, how could middle managers possibly hope to organize it efficiently?
There are significantly better management systems than ones that employ middle management in the way that most companies do today.
Middle management being good or bad probably depends entirely on the company, and how it's implemented. Either way it's pretty sad that people are losing their jobs, especially so in a city like Derby that already struggles with a lot of issues.
But... They are all of that, except electric?
Why do you think they cost upwards of 300k? Certainly isn't for having an inline 4
In theory?
Lol.
In most companies thats what the positions are for, and how it works. There is a reason why middle management is a thing. There are some freeloaders but a LOT put the hard yards in, and you obviously have no idea how middle management works if you think they're that redundant. But gee, you may never have worked in a corporation or a large business before so I could understand how you might justify your views.
Also they're first to be made redundant in this scenario yes, and in some other bloated corporations.
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