Have no idea what's going on in the US. Nothing in my immediate surroundings.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/at-work/tech-careers/massive-worldwide-layoff-underway-at-ibm

200 folks was let go this week, they will continue to shrink the footprint here in the States as it relates to GDCs - we are way too expensive and they will continue to cut workers in the USA. Layoffs will continue through 2015 and IBM is hiding the... — read more 

Aside from direct layoffs that happen pretty much all the time at IBM, the management is very sneaky when it comes to designing attrition programs to get folks quit without receiving severance payments that may be sometimes very good for folks that... — read more 

What's a typical severance package?

IBM shares off 7% after big earnings miss

We'll start the purge on 11/1 @ 3pm EDT

I understand that compensation varies per region, so, if you can, please post numbers for East / West Coast and Mid-West. Thanks!

Would someone please explain the T2R concept to me. I am not with IBM but would like to learn about the practical outcomes of the concept (my company will have something similar to T2R)

OK, let's start with the name, come on, "Project Apollo", who's so smart to name the project by the god of Music, Healing & Prophecy. And was not he super handsome too? I guess Rommetty likes looking at those Greek sculptures of super handsome gods... — read more 

Alliance@IBM is your best source for this kind of information

Growth to come from cloud, analytics, big data, mobile and security... Hardware always suffers, damn it.

We just missed a billion dollar in revenues - EVERY TIME WE DO SIMILAR SIZE DROPS we do layoffs, simple as that. There will be no hiding here...

they are using BCG as a way to fire people. It is a double score for IBM: get rid of an "expensive" US employee without severance! I had this happen to me. They resurrected an old audit from 2 years ago. I had met with my manager over a year ago and... — read more