My wife just got RA'd after over 17 years of stellar service and immediately following a change in severance policy that dramatically reduced severance.

Manager said it was a resource allocation decision, not a performance issue. 90 days until termination, with 1 month severance pay.

MARK MY WORDS

Of course they will do it right after the GDP payouts (a/k/a performance bonus) are announced to employees. My measly $1,000 for a 2+ performer is chump change to Ginni and the execs. They probably carry that kind of money in their wallet in the... — read more 

Canned today. It's OK, will move on, hated it here anyway (4 years). Digital Sales, NE. Last day 5/31/2016, will get 30 days severance after that. The rest of it is pretty much standard, there was a lot of fluff but the meeting was brief and they... — read more 

Any updates here? I left in November 2015, the timing might have worked out for me. Stay strong.

Tyring to make sense of this. I am in Software Sales, West, no cuts as of this afternoon

Good luck to the remaining IBM team with this latest round of layoffs. Happened to me in 2014.

I just got hit. Same as others are saying: last day is May 31, don't know if there is any pay beyond then. There are some internal jobs. There will be career counseling. I'll find out more tomorrow.

CIO BU had some cuts yesterday and this morning - this is 100% confirmed as my SO got RAed about 2 hours ago. What I am hearning from him there were fairly large cuts in the Software unit, he thinks its dozens but I cannot confirm this - if I get... — read more 

The layoffs are affecting US and Global Delivery Centers - the rumor is it'll take about 2 days for things to calm down. Good luck and god bless.

A Resource Action is taking place today in GTS. The last day will be May 31 2016. I have 21 years of tenure, I was transferred to IBM from a client a few years back. My group knew what was going on and we’ve been tracking this site and the FB group –... — read more 

https://streamable.com/raiz or see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAHtNQo3eog

I am currently on a project , but my utilization is down due to time off because of health reasons, my manager basically told me I need to work more hours to get my utilization up or higher management will give me a PIP (Performance improvement plan... — read more 

70k added to payroll in 2015, 70k laid off in 2016. Add: Offshore; Cut: Onshore - when the dust settles, Indian Business Machines will be an awesome company figthing a tranche warfare with Tata and Infosys. Forget R&D, that's just for the investors... — read more 

After our 2015 voluntary RA, now UK labs are hit with a massive regular RA, 10% to 15%, pretty much all groups will be affected. There is a link below to the news coverage – +100 will be let go – they have a committee up and running. There will be no... — read more 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/29/ibm_uk_labs_redundancies/

Unfortunately, IBM still uses the despised "normal distribution" performance rating system, at the close of the performance year each employee is stacked – you can be rated as a top contributor (5% of all employees), above average contributor (15%)... — read more 

IBM Human Resources did it right this time. From the basic premise of a need to change, to using agile methods for design and feedback of the process, to rolling it all out to workers. They really are walking the talk when it comes to how to provide... — read more 

Some hate it here at IBM. I love my job. Not so keen on the politics and everything else that goes on though. But still love the job itself...

The goal with ditching PBC was supposedly to make performance evaluations simpler, more-streamlined, and less time and labor intensive, but now with Checkpoint: it's 4'x the amount of work and time in assembling and inputting information, as well as... — read more 

The whole Checkpoint system is ridiculous....its just another exercise in creative writing that you now have to do 4 times as often....its another time waster

I would like to leave the company, however, it should be nice if I can get severance. My plan is to leave in the fall, however if I was to get the severance I wouldn't mind leaving right now. Maybe I can save somebody from getting laid off, while... — read more 

What are the general terms of IBM layoff package? Do they pay 2 weeks of salary for every year worked? Will bonus/commission be included in that calculation?

As someone who worked for IBM for more than 30 years before taking a job with another company, I can say that these were my reasons for sticking out so long.... For at least the first 9 years, IBM was flush, and even though it wasn't a stated policy... — read more 

Yes, IBM will be in a big hurt for buying all those shares at the highs which will never be seen again. After the coming crash they wont have $$ left to pay the bills or Ginni's ridiculous salary and bonus for poor performance. LOL..

(From 2/22/2016) http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-business/ci_29548191/concentrix-closing-ibm-campus-site-270-jobs-lost

Hi All - I was laid off in July 2015, I've had some personal issues and moved three times in last 6 months. Anyhow, I need my W2 so I can complete taxes but I never received it from IBM, probably because I was moving. Anyhow, do you know if there is... — read more 

What do we know so far, I've heard that South-East is very week with a ton of people unstaffed - is this going to result in more layoffs in March 2016? I am referring to GBS here.

You are evaluated and ranked on a quarter to quarter basis. Every IBM employee has an expiration date on his/her head. It really is just a matter of time before every employee's number comes up. It is simply the IBM way.

I was laid off early last year, but I found another job quickly that paid better and was far more interesting. Do not make staying or leaving IBM into an emotional decision. For myself, although I wish I had not been laid off, it was definitely a... — read more 

We just got acquired by IBM, do you think that IBM will be laying off back office folks, IT, Finance, etc. How does IBM typically handles things like this. Please let me know.

I see that i need to do really good on my PBC - anything else? What do you suggest as it relates to doing well on PBC. Also, if PBC is changing, what will replace it and do you think that the next rating system will be resembling the existing one?... — read more 

I started in IBM's cloud group as a band 6 - we only had about 100 clusters to administer with 8 people on support, and 8 people on ops. OK, now this seems like a fair amount, and workload was manageable. Since then, IBM has consistently dropped the... — read more