General Motors, looking to save every penny possible, announced yesterday that it will require salaried workers to take two extra vacation days in December – on top of the automaker’s two-week holiday shutdown. The automaker says that its headquarters and its manufacturing facilities will be fully staffed, but that most of the automaker’s operations will effectively shut down for an extra couple of days.
“We notified the employees last week that in our continued efforts to conserve cash we are asking employees to take two additional vacation days,” GM spokesman Dan Flores told Automotive News. “It’ll give us significant savings in utilities and facility expenses.”
GM’s Warren, Michigan, engineering center, which employs more than 16,000, its Milford, Michigan, proving grounds and its desert proving grounds in Mesa, Arizona, will all be quiet on December 22 and 23.
