IBM revamped it's sales and technical sales commission targets to be based on employee salary. That approach allowed IBM to target senior, higher earning, employees by positioning them in accounts that had zero or low history of purchase and thus... — read more 

Got the RA notice late Thursday 3/30. Digital Business Group same old 90/30 plan with 21 years of service. When did experience become a liability?? Too young to retire.

If "RA'd", you are not eligible for rehire for 5 years. Also, managers are instructed to ignore those people trying to land another position before their RA kicks in. In the history of the company, I have never heard of anyone ever finding a job... — read more 

Have you noticed that layoffs are being hidden? That's exactly why this site exists, because we all know corporations are hiding the true extent of the layoffs. The reason why is political, and surprising. We are entering a recession, a severe... — read more 

IBM is creating a lot of new terms like "talent remix" lately. One of my favorite is the "Hundred Percent Club" for sales. Anyone want to guess what percentage of quota you have to be to qualify for this honor? One hundred and twenty percent. These... — read more 

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ibm-begins-firings-at-north-carolina-site-2017-03-31 "International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) has confirmed that the company is laying off a 'relatively small' number of people at its Research Triangle Park... — read more 

Some of these kid's had over 7 different managers is the last 15 months. No direction whatsoever. No focus. What a waste of stockholder value. Shame on them!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/one_third_ibm_staff_in_india_bangladesh/ Just shy of one-third of IBM's global workforce is now based in India and Bangladesh, a leaked internal blog has indicated. World+dog was aware that Big Blue has spent... — read more 

Got the RA notice Watson Customer Engagement East Coast 90/30 plan 12 years of service not close to retirement

Reality is that a lot of valuable talent just got treated poorly. It stinks and stings to know that loyalty and excellence is rewarded with a late career purging without regard for much other than a half baked plan to redirect resources. They have... — read more 

As I write this, the sales groups across the country are being massively decimated. Yet, aside from a few random blurbs on niche sites, the FB group and this site you cannot find any news about this RA. Yesterday 5 p.m. PDT, there was a single tweet... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/31/ibm_bloodbath_continues/ IBM is once again laying off folks – this time swinging its axing mostly through sales teams in the US. This latest round of headcount slashing – coldly categorized internally as a... — read more 

I'm part of a 30 March IBM resource action. FT mobile, individual contributor Cloud sales operations based in US. Long-time IBMer not close to retirement.

http://www.visasquare.com/visa-greencard/report/ibm-40128.html

Got the RA notice today, was in Cloud Tech Sales in SE US... 90/30 plan.

Got a call from my manager's EA that he would call me to "catch up" tomorrow- March 31. What a waste of time that is going to be. I would rather get an email with the same content. 14 years with the company and over 50.

I've been laid off. No surprise here - I'm remote, services, part time, and (here is the tough part) a week short of 61 years old. So I will be riffed officially 9 months before I was eligible to retire. Too bad.

One of my buddies was laid off today after 23 years of Service. It looks like all USA again. Surprise? Nope. Where are the 20,000 jobs Gini that you promised in front of Trump. Is any employee going to trust IBM any more? Nope. Oh well, I have plan B... — read more 

Just got the notice of layoff today as well. IBM acquired the company I worked for and did 1 big layoff a year after the acquisition cutting us in half and now more of us are gone. We all made the company what it is but I guess that doesn't matter... — read more 

RA in Perth, WA, Australia started yesterday (30th Mar 2017). All zsystems BU personnel to be made redundant. A couple of non-zsystems BU projects continuing. Approx 30+ RA'd just in Perth.

Even Watson got hit. I regret joining IBM every minute of every day. If I get RA'ed I will name drop every single person that f---ed up the Watson Health group.

http://wraltechwire.com/ibm-confirms-new-layoffs-as-part-of-a-talent-remix-/16615827/ Research Triangle Park, N.C. — A Facebook page set up to give voice to IBM workers lit up Thursday with employees reporting another round of layoffs. An IBM... — read more 

Head over to glassdoor.com and put in your review of IBM and it gives you a chance to rate the CEO, who just took a five million dollar bonus for about 33 million compensation in 2016, all for twenty straight quarters of revenue decline under her... — read more 

I just received word that I am part of a new RA. Starts today with a 90 day RA package. I'm going to dial into my dept meeting to hear how large it will be and will post and update later. I have been with IBM for over 17 yrs.

They just laid off and wiped out an entire department at the Lincoln NE location. No notice just came in to work was laid off with 20+ other employees.

Do not lift a finger to do any work for the company during the entire 90 days. Log on to SameTime as Do Not Disturb every day. Spend ALL of your time looking for another job outside IBM. What are they going to do, fire you? Do not feel guilty. IBM... — read more 

Multiple groups being affected - will post more info as I learn more...

The IPM is an RA hiding behind a performance management review and takes entire departments into mandatory PIP from which there is no real way to exit: if your division funded only 50% of your bonus pool you are automatically on the mandatory pip... — read more 

Large cuts in S&D technical sales and software technical sales. Of the ones I know are in their 50s or older, several in top achieving accounts with top level performance reviews, multiple 10mm deals in last couple of years. All about costs. Several... — read more 

So the mass movement of employees back to office space is in progress. Innovative? No. New, fresh, breakthrough? Please. This is a disguised mass layoff and cost cutting move, nothing more. The people who can't or won't move are established... — read more 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovative-ibm-kills-working-from-home-bruce-kasanoff

RA's in S&S Renewals on Friday. They were told they were the lowest sales performers against the new metric they put in place, based on the last two years of performance. These are individuals with above average performance reviews. April 24th is... — read more 

https://m.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/24/ibmers_in_same_division_given_second_redundo_scheme_in_as_many_months/ IBM UK appears to have fired the starting gun on a 2.0 redundancy programme for the Infrastructure Services Delivery division – before the... — read more 

Just start from ~8:05 and play until the end: the not so thinly veiled messages are very clear. . . http://finance.yahoo.com/video/ibm-ceo-rometty-growing-cloud-193818106.html

Just saying, it kind of puts things into perspective.

https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-thousands-of-employees-back-to-the-office/