[simon varley]

yes, the company did hire up for next gen, but a lot of those roles were agency not full time. This round of redundencies is aimed at the full time salary positions, with a few hourly to round it out.

when I left six weeks ago the message was definitely about reduced workload due to the development cycle of T6. the next few years will largely be freshening work so many less engineers required. The company say that Australia remains the lead for Ranger/Everest, but the truth is that there have always been ongoing discussions about combining with F150, so thats never been guaranteed

this round of cuts is spoken about on terms of efficiencies. There's a global push for a 25% efficiency improvement of which significant numbers have already gone in America and Europe. I think it's just Australia's turn now :(

I don't know, but it sure feels like the start of the end, to me.