Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co., which shed white-collar workers during the industry downturn, plan to hire more than 3,000 salaried workers this year.
Ford said its intention to hire 2,200 salaried workers in the U.S. this year includes a "significant number" in southeast Michigan. And General Motors Co. says it will add about 1,000 high-tech jobs in suburban Atlanta.
Ford said today it will add white-collar employees in product development, information technology and manufacturing, and as interns. The 2,200 hires would represent Ford's largest single-year increase of salaried workers in more than a decade.
"As we expand our product lineup of fuel-efficient vehicles, we need more people in critical areas — such as in a range of engineering activities, vehicle production, computer software and other IT functions," Ford's President of the Americas Joe Hinrichs said in a statement.