"Ford rehires 350 engineers after AI fails to preserve expertise or train juniors" In order to rehire someone they must laid off or fired? You don't rehire new employees?
replyFarther down it clarifies that only some of them were former employees, and others were poached from other companies:
reply>Over the last three years, Ford says it has hired 350 veteran engineers, many of them former employees and others from suppliers
And not all former employees were laid off. Senior 'greybeards' have many job opportunities elsewhere and often leave for better offers.
I think most of them were losses by attrition. Where they don't replace lost employees. That's usually the preferred method of downsizing if you can get away with it.
replyWhat is the point of a comment like this?
replyThis article may not mention anything but it doesn't exist in a vacuum. Go search "Ford Layoffs 2025" and see for your self
It's not up for debate whether they did or didn't lay people off recently. They unambiguously did.