Recognizing that its first round of 3,500 job cuts wasn’t enough to bring it back into the black, Moto has announced — as expected — a second round of layoffs to the tune
of 4,000 axed positions. Ultimately, the company expects to save $600 million from the new cuts after they’ve been bunched in with "prioritization of investments, continuing discretionary-spending controls, general and administrative expenses and site rationalization" (whether any of that verbage actually means anything, we don’t know, but it certainly sounds frugal). For the record, the first 3,500 cuts are apparently on track to be completed by June 30, but with newly-announced "restructuring charges" totalling $300 million, it’s anybody’s guess whether these moves are ultimately going to make America’s only top five manufacturer profitable again.