GRAND BLANC TWP, MI -- General Motors is moving employees from its Grand Blanc Township Customer Care and Aftersales World Headquarters to Warren, a shift that leaves the future of the complex in doubt and that affects all 900 employees who worked here.
“GM is shifting the location of certain groups in (southeast) Michigan to increase collaboration among our teams,” GM said in a statement to MLive-The Flint Journal. “The moves also reflect adapting to post-pandemic workplaces where the future will be more flexible. The moves will bring more employees and teams to the Global Technical Center in Warren. Some workers will shift to Warren from the global headquarters at the GM RenCen and a facility in Grand Blanc (Township), while the company will also bring some new tech workers to the RenCen.”
GM spokesman David Caldwell confirmed the shift involves all 900 white-collar workers in the township, but said it is too soon to say whether the employees will all physically move to Warren.
He said the future of the headquarters campus, which served as the company’s nerve center for the worldwide sales and distribution of GM parts to dealers, service and repair centers and retailers, is still to be determined.
The company expects to start the process of bringing more people into the workplace this summer, Caldwell said, but it’s not known “exactly how it will look ... other than the fact that the future will be more flexible.”
The 300,000-square-foot CCA facility was built in 1996 at a cost of $43 million, according to MLive-The Flint Journal files. Each floor of the three-story brick and glass structure covers nearly two acres.
Construction started after GM bought 82 acres at the southeast corner of Hill Road and I-475, using about 40 acres for the headquarters campus with plans to sell the remaining property for complementary development such as restaurants and lodging.
The decision to move employees from Grand Blanc Township to Warren isn’t the first time such a shift has been considered.
In 2009, employees were told there was at least a 90 percent chance they would be transferred to Warren, and in 2010, the company confirmed it was trying to sell the headquarters property before reversing that decision.
The pre-COVID-19 pandemic workforce at the complex was approximately 900, Caldwell said. GM’s total employee headcount is unaffected by the planned shifts, the spokesman said.
Grand Blanc Township Supervisor Scott Bennett said he has yet to be told officially that employees will be transferred later this year.
“All I know is that they were going to talk to employees today,” Bennett said Wednesday, March 17. “We never want to have vacant buildings in our township ... We would much rather have (people working in) them here.”
Bennett said the township collects approximately $70,000 in property taxes annually from the property, which he described as prime commercial real estate.
“My hope is we can get them to rethink (the decision) or find some other use for it,” he said.
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