By Shawn Henry 
General Motors is axing another 325 jobs as it winds down its IT Innovation Center in Roswell, Georgia, set to shutter by late 2025. It’s the latest gut punch in a string of white-collar cuts while the Detroit giant tightens its tech operations and leans harder on artificial intelligence.
The Roswell hub, launched back in 2013, was once a shiny emblem of GM’s push to bring tech development in-house. Back then, the plan was crystal clear: scoop up nearly all IT work under its own roof. Fast forward to today, and that bright-eyed strategy’s getting a brutal reality check as the company scrambles to adapt to the digital whirlwind and slash costs.
Now, GM’s cramming what’s left of its IT work into just a handful of centralized hubs—Warren, Michigan, and Austin, Texas, are the big winners here. Some of the 575 Roswell staffers might stick around till mid-2026, with a lucky few snagging remote gigs or relocating. For the rest? Standard severance packages, no surprises.
These Georgia layoffs land like a one-two punch, hot on the heels of 200+ pink slips in design engineering and the abrupt death of GM’s Hydrotec hydrogen project. Then there’s last year’s bloodbath in Arizona, where almost 1,000 tech jobs got the chop.
Weird timing, considering GM execs were just in New York hyping flashy AI and self-driving tech like the future’s already here. But behind the glossy presentations, the real story’s gritted teeth and spreadsheet math—innovation’s great until it means tossing people overboard.
For the Roswell crew cleaning out their desks, it’s a harsh lesson: even in the age of robots and algorithms, human workers are still the easiest line item to cross out.
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