General Motors Co. laid off more than 200 salaried employees on Friday, mostly at its Tech Center in Warren, Michigan, according to Bloomberg.

The cuts, announced around 7 a.m. via a Slack message, were attributed to "business conditions" rather than performance, according to people familiar with the meeting.

A GM spokesperson said the move targeted overlapping roles in design engineering, explaining, "We're restructuring our design engineering team to strengthen our core architectural design engineering capabilities. As a result, a number of CAD execution roles have been eliminated. We recognize the efforts and accomplishments of the impacted team members, and we thank them for their contributions."