Ford Motor said Friday it will offer 90, 000 of its retired engineers and office workers the option to accept a lump sum payment now and to forgo their regular monthly pension checks for the rest of their lives.
It will create about 40 roles from boiler engineers to back office support staff.
Drivers, engineers and back office staff walked out at 00:01 GMT for 24 hours as part of dispute over pay.
Take hope, my humanities-oriented friends, software is finally getting good enough to shift engineers to the back-office and unleash humanities-centric creative thinking at the front office, which will be transformative.
Its headquarters are in Manhattan, it has an office in San Francisco that houses product engineers, has sales offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Chicago and operates another office in London.
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The country's second-largest carmaker by sales, it said it would hire engineers, computer programmers and other office workers.
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Jolla, established by former Nokia engineers, set up a Hong Kong office last December and is aiming to expand in China with mid-to-high end smartphones.
As technology firms expand, they require both office space and homes for their engineers.
He moved out of his window office into a cubicle near the engineers.
The focus in this area is on remotely controlled robots with visual capabilities that allow utility engineers and planners to assess systems remotely from their office while crews are at the inspection location.
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Finding new ways to power civilization offers up a box of goodies irresistible to everyone from Silicon Valley investors and engineers hoping for '90s-style payouts, to office-seeking senators looking for visionary solutions, to governors like Ritter, whose political lives depend on hauling home bacon by the ton.
The company will retain its office there, says Silver Lake, largely to recruit top engineers.
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On a test run in an alley across from the office, the vehicle lurches forward to a slow trot as engineers nervously walk alongside it in case the gyroscopes fail and the cycle tips.
Tell that to the programmers and engineers that worked on the code and the support staff that worked getting not only a Photoshop or Office, but less popular programs, which while not commanding a huge clientele, are just as complex in their creation, to market.
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The company opened an office in Sunnyvale, Calif. in September and plans to fill it with as many as ten engineers.
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