GM's mask operation: a glimpse into the factory of the coronavirus era

DETROIT (Reuters) - Before the coronavirus outbreak shut them down, U.S. auto factories were hectic workplaces where men and women worked side by side along fast-moving assembly lines, ate in crowded break areas, and jostled in and out of gates as they changed shifts.That is not what auto factories are like in the era of COVID-19. A General Motors Co operation set up in a shuttered transmission factory in Warren, Michigan to assemble face masks provides a glimpse of what manufacturing will look..