150 people let go recently from Harley-Davidson.
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So who do you consider woke other than some CEO which in general come and go. I don't even know who it is.
150 is, and isn't a lot for a big company. Can be down sizing, can be getting rid of old people with big salaries and lots of vacation. Funny part is sometimes they have to hire them back as contractors. Could be they had doubles of staff after re-aligning, I have seen that too.
150 is, and isn't a lot for a big company. Can be down sizing, can be getting rid of old people with big salaries and lots of vacation. Funny part is sometimes they have to hire them back as contractors. Could be they had doubles of staff after re-aligning, I have seen that too.
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Harley has over 6,500 employees.
Losing 150 is either quite interesting (depending on who they were) or a complete non-event. If the 150 who were fired were the president, board of directors, design team and DEI/ESG offices, then that's hella interesting. If it's redundant or obsolete employees and just general cleanup, then losing 0.023% of their workforce is a meaningless blip.
According to the article: I saw:
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According to a source with knowledge of the situation, about 150 employees were impacted. It's unclear which business functions — production or corporate — or which specific business locations were among those facing layoffs. No timeline was given, though under state law, companies engaging in a mass layoff generally must provide 60 days of notice.
As of Wednesday evening, the state's Department of Workforce Development had not published a notice from the motorcycle manufacturer.
Sounds like it's no big deal.
Losing 150 is either quite interesting (depending on who they were) or a complete non-event. If the 150 who were fired were the president, board of directors, design team and DEI/ESG offices, then that's hella interesting. If it's redundant or obsolete employees and just general cleanup, then losing 0.023% of their workforce is a meaningless blip.
According to the article: I saw:
“We can confirm that the company is implementing select organizational adjustments. Aligned to our Hardwire 2 ambitions, we believe these changes will drive cost productivity across the business to allow us to focus on the biggest opportunities for the company,“ according to a spokesperson for Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG).
According to a source with knowledge of the situation, about 150 employees were impacted. It's unclear which business functions — production or corporate — or which specific business locations were among those facing layoffs. No timeline was given, though under state law, companies engaging in a mass layoff generally must provide 60 days of notice.
As of Wednesday evening, the state's Department of Workforce Development had not published a notice from the motorcycle manufacturer.
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The employee count for the moco is more like 5,000 but only about 600 employees actually build the bikes at the assembly plant in York. Electric bike production line will soon move from York to Wisconsin. The York assembly plant is scheduled for 10 weeks of shutdown between now and end of the year, usually it’s only two weeks. They say the 24’s are not selling as much as projected.
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Could cost have anything to do with that? Where I live, a new street glide is $11K more than a new Goldwing. Im not a GW fan personally but thats a significant difference. I was at the local dealer last weekend to pick up oil, a filter and a few other items so I looked at the new bikes. I like them, I can afford one but wont pay that much for a motorcycle that's that expensive (unless its from the 1940's), depreciating rapidly and needs a ballast added to the front end to solve a stability problem, not to mention the recall that capped the top speed for the instability issue. Im no marketing expert but wouldn't they sell more bikes if they offered ones that cost less and lacked the revmax engine?
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The employee count for the moco is more like 5,000 but only about 600 employees actually build the bikes at the assembly plant in York. Electric bike production line will soon move from York to Wisconsin. The York assembly plant is scheduled for 10 weeks of shutdown between now and end of the year, usually it’s only two weeks. They say the 24’s are not selling as much as projected.
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