General Motors is laying off nearly 1,000 workers in the U.S. as part of a cost-cutting bid, just three months after cutting 1,000 software jobs. The company told TechCrunch that cuts won't affect hourly workers at any of its factories,

General Motors cut a total of about 1,000 salaried and hourly employees early Friday morning as part of ongoing restructuring. The move comes after the firm reduced its electric-vehicle production and adopted a new salaried employee ranking system to classify workers by their productivity earlier this year.