And it comes with significantly higher pay than I have here. Makes me wonder if IBM has been underpaying me all these years without me even realizing it... And probably not just me... For some reason I thought we were well within industry standard in... — read more 

So, first look at this announcement from Dec. 2018 for Ginni as co-chair of the Business Roundtable Immigration Committee: https://www.businessroundtable.org/business-roundtable-announces-2019-leadership Then look at this letter that she signed and... — read more 

Revenue is deceiving - If you look at a graph of IBM's Historical Revenue over the last 20 years vs. IBM's Historical Net Income, % Net is a much smaller declining slope than Revenue, which tells me they are ditching lower-profit areas consistently... — read more 

In GTS, Cloud Services. Current group is spread across India and the US, but most are in India. Cuts were made only on the US side - no one from offshore affected. Work to be transitioned to the offshore team.

Arrow up = Whitehurst / Arrow Down = Martin-Schroeter

Scale 1 to 10. 1 being not likely at all...

https://newsroom.ibm.com/Martin-Schroeter

NYTimes: New Evidence of Age Bias in Hiring, and a Push to Fight It https://nyti.ms/31eZlQa By Patricia Cohen June 7, 2019 MADISON, Ala. — Across the United States, mammoth corporations and family businesses share a complaint: a shortage of workers... — read more 

IBM confirmed that a “small percentage of employees” who are not performing “at a competitive level” would be leaving the company. First time I've seen this statement mentioned in any of the news articles that reported on this RA. Nothing like a... — read more 

Was there any Layoffs on DB2 LUW development and support division Haven’t heard Layoffs on NA DB2 LUW side

The CEO will never get laid off because she hand picked the board of directors. If some of the major shareholders revolt or create a massive sell off of IBM stock it may tank. Maybe after losing another 40% of its stock value the shareholders might... — read more 

IBM confirmed today that 1700 folks were laid off. They didn’t say where in the world they were laid off from. IBM is going to stretch this lay-off out as the Redhat deal is not complete. They need Redhat in the boat before they finalize all of their... — read more 

Layoffs have started In Coppell, TX

Any RAs going today Friday? Seems like the bulk of it happened yesterday?

So this happened on Wednesday, all people in a room, security guards all over the place, and then it all started, meeting one by one with everyone's manager to know if you will continue or not, we heard about 150-200, that is for sure more than 50%... — read more 

A week ago Rometti was patting herself on the back again for the P-Tech program, which trains high school kids for tech jobs and then IBM hires them. Today they announce another layoff—the third in four years. Systematically replacing their workforce... — read more 

This is all about age discrimination! At the same time IBM RA they are employing thousands of millenniums. Why isn’t the government doing anything?

2017 - @JtAUPMv - 92,234 views, 135 replies - https://www.thelayoff.com/t/JtAUPMv 2018 - @OLbfSBK - 45,391 views, 61 replies - https://www.thelayoff.com/t/OLbfSBK 2019 - @VZzqzzM - 18,293 views, 42 replies - https://www.thelayoff.com/t/VZzqzzM — read more 

So if we have 70K people here in the US and they are telling us they cut 1,700 the overall impact on the IBM USA workforce is 2.5%.

This is common practice with IBM every year around the end of March. In 2008 there were 3 layoff totaling 15,000

Reasons: 1) Work from home( More then half of US employees working from home). They can't find remote work from home job outside.As 99%mof jobs are office onsite job. 2) Less work: I have seen half of employees in many teams are only giving their... — read more 

Got laid off in february along with others from a buyout. All over 40 by the way. The only 2 that stayed were under 40. The onboarding team stressed how honored we should be to be IBMers now. Lol, maybe 30 years ago bub. Your name means sh-- these... — read more 

In the feverish minds of the freshly minted MBA's we are all interchangeable parts. To think otherwise would severely limit their options as they "redesign" IBM. Hopefully, IBM's competitors will scoop up the people with product and industry... — read more 

Is the CEO and management going to take a pay cut with all of the layoffs happening?? LOL!! Yea Right! where my crack pipe?? It always start at the top they are the leaders that fail the employees trying to make a difference and keep the company... — read more 

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/06/ibm-layoffs-affect-more-than-1000-employees.html

I got my RA letter today. After being rebadged to IBM after IBM took over infrastructure responsibilites, 18 months later I'm here. Being 57 doesnt help much either.

I don't get it. Nothing has changed. IBM has being acting like this for or at least the last 5 years. Although I sympathize to all effected, every year employees come on to this board in seemingly denial. What did you expect was going to happen?... — read more 

Watson Health has been on death row since they got all the bad press in the spring of last year. That was followed by IBM firing approximately 40% of the Watson Health workforce in June of last year and then the head of Watson Health, Debbie DiSanzo... — read more 

They should lay off the CEO, She's done nothing for the stock price and investors are damned angry.

You need to ask yourself that question... if you are not directly billable or in Sales and at least achieving your quotas, then you are costing money to the company. In times of never ending decreasing revenues the only option is for you to be RA’ed... — read more 

35 years with IBM. RA'd today in Research Triangle Park NC. Was told my SAP Development skills are obsolete - yet they just brought on 2 contractors last month with same skills. BS! I doubt I'll hear from any of the postings on GOM.

Have heard about 400 people across Watson Health are getting RA’d today.

TSS and IS both got hit today, myself included. Been talking to other SSRs in other cities and it sounds like almost every city in the country lost people. SSRs that got moved to IS last year are also getting laid off. TSS Systems Service... — read more 

Will no longer use IBM. No loyalty to American workers. Cut throat.

This whole approach will make for a toxic workplace. It's being driven by a desire to avoid eeoc and other regularity impacts. If people leave before the three months, the company doesn't have to report that they fired an over 40, their unemployment... — read more 

IBM Security tech sales RA is happening right now... This is on top of a forced move of people to gts last month. Big cuts, deep and wide. Talent and experience disposed.

GTS north america got hammered today. Many many many head counts. Me included :(

300 will be laid off, still talking to the unions. this is related to HCL/divestiture. we'll see how things pan out for for now it looks like this is the entire batch that will be let go...

Watson Health has started - folks impacted will have their meetings today. Folks are getting three months to find a comparable job or leave.