This article shows a good example of how AI can help medical diagnosis. The problem is, it isn't Watson. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ai-better-finding-skin-cancer-doctors-study-230756918.html

They laid off Watson Health people and hire 1800 in France.

Management will soon release a memo regarding in-office hours for the U.S., possibly all of North America. This memo is in response to entry credential data logs from each site. Unknown as to whether this data is being used for other reasons than to... — read more 

More media coverage, courtesy of The Register, on this latest bloodbath. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/25/ibms_watson_layoffs/

Layoffs were reported to have been especially heavy in Ann Arbor, Mich., and Denver.

https://www.wraltechwire.com/2018/05/25/reports-ibm-laying-off-workers-in-watson-health-group-including-triangle/

Yesterday 80% of the workforce was let go from Dallas. What a joke! They never could come up with any product lines and/or reqs. How they will be successful. They just burnt money and blame it on the poor IT people where upper management failed to... — read more 

So while the bloodbath was occurring in Watson Health, look where Ginni was and what she was pitching: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/23/50-tech-ceos-come-to-paris-to-talk-about-tech-for-good/

1/3 of the entire Truven Provider Client Experience team have been laid off - good luck doing any work after this.

About half of all folks in Provider Acquisition (Watson Health) got axed today. The number may be higher, as things are still transpiring. My estimate is that about 200 folks got axed – as expected, IBM is hiding all relevant info and they are... — read more 

Lot of people in Watson Health Cloud got laid off today in Camridge,MA. 100s of people...Watson is just a marketing tool..no real technology beneath...

I spent over 20 years at IBM and left last year for a new opportunity, I wish I left years earlier. I arrived when Lou Gerstner took over and even though there were many layoffs back then, most people volunteered for lucrative packages and had... — read more 

Starting to see a lot of this around LInkedIn. New VPs telling everyone how great it is to work at IBM. Obviously in a privileged position. The dead giveaway is the final sentence where it mentions IBM facts. What is funny that in the links, the link... — read more 

I'm sure it's a zero-sum game: so 1800 new hires means 1800 RA's of current employees 40+ years & older. . . http://www.rttnews.com/2897980/ibm-to-add-1800-jobs-in-france-and-new-tech-training.aspx

Does IBM even attract young talent? IBM seems like a place where the youngest age of a full-time employee is 35.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/05/21/us-green-cards-available-for-indians-but-theyre-not-cheap.html

Only engineers left at IBM are working for the finance group, Financial Engineers - there is no innovation any more, at any level.

I work for a client, we are getting absorbed by IBM. I am in the Dev group. I've been with the co for about 3 years (hired straight from college) - The company is providing guarantees that we'll keep our jobs at least a year. I have a 'soft'... — read more 

Worked on State of Georgia account for 9+ yrs. Made it though many rounds of cuts same story as about used abused and lied to. Saw many many coworkers go very talented seasoned people 40's and 50's so if your not 25 get out now - we were cored. And... — read more 

Reminds me of IBM layoffs The story of three envelopes is a business classic for dysfunctional organizations. It starts with an incoming manager replacing a recently fired outgoing manager. On his way out, the outgoing manager hands the new manager... — read more 

Today, IBM is bringing over 100 of our top leaders from across the country to meet with Members of Congress and discuss important issues as part of our annual Washington fly-in. It’s the tenth year we’ve held this fly-in and this year,. . . So the... — read more 

This week, lots of Band 6's to be Let Go

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched a nationwide probe of age bias at IBM in the wake of a ProPublica investigation showing the company has flouted or outflanked laws intended to protect older workers from discrimination... — read more 

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article208438424.html DURHAM IBM is trying to fend off lawsuits from a trio of its former salesmen who say the company shortchanged them when it came time to hand out commissions on high-dollar software... — read more 

Call me an old geezer, but I don't believe that cryptocurrency is something that can survive long-term in the real world. All the people who were going to earn real money on it already did, now it's only a matter of time before it all collapses. I... — read more 

Heard a new T2R was announced last week with the possibility of spanning it out over 3 years: can anyone post a summary of some further details?

It looks like this $10 Billion dollar contract will go to Amazon. We (IBM) and Oracle are fighting tooth and nail to stop this and carve out a piece of the pie for ourselves. Pentagon is pushing back, we'll see how things pan out. If we manage to get... — read more 

There has been an internal survey sent out this week which asks employees to rank IBM and it's competitors on reputation and whether you think they are doing well. Included in that is a section on Ginni, which asks if you think she is doing a good... — read more 

www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2018/05/14/controversial-uscis-memo-draws-major-h-1b-lawsuit/amp/

Can anyone that's been RA'd tell me what happens with your IBM provided life insurance benefit, plus any extra amount you may have been paying for out of your paycheck? Does the life insurance company reach out to you to keep it after you're gone and... — read more 

Guess the Canadians just haven't learned their lesson. Anyone want to guess how this will turn out? http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ibm-shared-services-contract-1.4658682

Anybody actually buying this? https://www.cnbc.com/video/2018/05/11/ibm-watson-cloud.html

When I was RA'd in 2016 as a senior certified Band 10 with no severance, my rights and options barely explained to me, no exit interview and did not sign away anything, I had thought the EEOC would fix it. Was I in for a shock. Papers went missing... — read more 

Imposition of draconian security measures is what phase en route to a full authoritarian dictatorship? https://gizmodo.com/ibm-reportedly-bans-all-employees-from-using-any-remova-1825921599

Google announced Duplex and it responds like you and me. Rewind to 2012: we saw Jeopardy; Google was all about search and maps. Fast-forward to 2018, surprise, yet another company is about to eat from IBM's buffet of strategic initiatives. Google... — read more 

Virginia M. Rometty of INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP, earned $18.6 Million in 2017 while the company’s shareholder return was -4.0%. . . . Virginia M. Rometty of INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP Tenure: 6 years Pay Rank: 82 out of 456... — read more 

Are we expecting any layoffs from the Armanta acquisition? I know there is really not a lot of overlap, but when it comes to IBM, I've learned by now that even a smallest excuse for a layoff is a good excuse for a layoff. Hopefully I'm wrong about... — read more 

IBM's strategy is more about creating an environment of fear so that more people at all levels will jump off of the sinking titanic. This is evidenced by monthly head count reductions regardless of performance. It is so sad to see shareholders hard... — read more 

Buffett: OUT! https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/04/warren-buffett-says-berkshire-hathaway-has-sold-completely-out-of-ibm.html

www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/03/h-1b-visas-tighter-rules-illegal-tech-outsourcers-claim-in-lawsuit/amp/