Ford Layoffs: About 25 Workers Cut From The Automaker’s Mobility Platforms And Products Team

Ahead of its Wednesday sales call, Ford Motor Co. (F) has reportedly laid off about 25 workers in its Mobility Platforms and Products team located in Detroit.

The layoffs were effective immediately and reduce the company’s mobility unit, which works to develop and implement the automaker’s technology and software systems, by approximately about one percent, the Detroit Free Press reported.

The layoffs were confirmed by Ford spokeswoman Karen Hampton, who told the news outlet that workers were notified on Monday as the company looks to “move to a product-drive organization.”

Talks about restructuring the Mobility Platforms and Products division of Ford were ongoing for months, according to Hampton, who also said, "This transformation is empowering our teams, allowing us to move faster, and driving the creation of customer value at market speed.

“That said, operating in a product-driven organization and agile environment requires a different skill set and style of working,” she continued. “As a result, a small number of team members have been separated from the company."

Employees within the Ford division were reportedly not given advanced notice of the layoffs, which are said not to affect workers within Ford’s AV LLC or its Ford Smart Mobility LLC business units.

The job cuts seem to be limited to just the Mobility Platforms and Products division of the company as Hampton said she was “not aware of anything else,” emphasizing that the “actions taken today were specifically related to the transformation of the Mobility Platforms and Products team to be a product-driven organization."

Fords’ Mobility Platforms and Products division is led by Rich Strader.

Shares of Ford stock were down 0.27 percent as of 10:29 p.m. ET on Tuesday.