The hallways at Ford Motor Co.’s world headquarters are about to get a little more crowded.
The automaker, which shed 13,000 U.S. white-collar jobs during the auto crisis, is in the midst of its largest salaried hiring spree in more than a decade. Most of the 3,000 new workers it is hiring will set up shop on the automaker’s Dearborn campus. About half of the new positions already have been filled.
“It’s now a major negotiation to get space in world headquarters,” Felicia Fields, Ford’s human resources chief, said in a roundtable with reporters Tuesday. “We are definitely at capacity here today.”
The Detroit News reported in June that Ford planned to hire 800 additional salaried workers this year — that’s on top of the 2,200 white-collar workers that Ford said in January it would hire. About two-thirds of the 3,000 jobs are new positions. Ford says its attrition rate is about 2.7 percent.