https://www.wraltechwire.com/2020/11/20/ibm-is-moving-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-reports-and-workers-say/

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4023714/ibm-plans-axe-jobs-europe

IBM is set to cull its workforce in Europe, with the UK braced to take a chunk of the cuts. A source told CRN's sister title Channel Partner Insight (CPI) that Big... https://www.channelweb.co.uk/news/4023640/uk-firing-line-ibm-prepares-job-cuts — read more 

IBM has maintained that age plays no role in employment actions. But, in August, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determined that the... — read more 

Coupled with IBM's apprenticeship model serving to establish foundational knowledge, clients and new apprentices can gain the benefit of Franklin... https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-announces-collar-apprenticeship-accelerator-110000228.html — read more 

(Tried to post this as a comment on this @OP+17RElUy7 post but curiously, that post has already been archived). https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/11/ibm-ceo-sent-president-elect-biden-a-letter-heres-why-he-wrote-it.html

Timing? Coverage? When will we be notified

The Queen of Failure who made almost half a Billion in her tenure at IBM, sinking it faster than the Titanic was the keynote speaker on Income Inequality and how we can change that! The level of absurdity has reached peak levels , not seen since our... — read more 

Every time I attend a meeting with higher ups in IBM from all the different divisions I supposedly part of, I get the impression that the higher ups at every level is out of touch with the people in IBM that actually do any of the work.

All these acquisitions can't bode well for their employment prospects...

“IBM's acquisition of Instana is yet another important step that we are taking to provide companies with the most complete portfolio of AI-automated solutions to... https://www.cfo.com/the-cloud/2020/11/ibm-to-buy-software-company-instana/

*Sorry it’s impacted you personally as I wouldn’t wish layoffs on anyone, but it’s high time IBM get a proper marketing firm to take over. Nothing done by the current team has helped improve our perception in the market. Shame that like many... — read more 

Come on, working from home, Covid, plus perpetually waiting for the next layoff most IBMers are drinking during the work day.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-to-acquire-instana-as-company-continues-to-advance-its-hybrid-cloud-and-ai-strategy-301175647.html Any thoughts ? Second acquisition this week

Coming out of forced retirement to ask, has IBM managed to lay off its way to profitability? That seems to be the only consistent strategy this leadership has been able to think of and implement in the past ten years, so I'm really curious if it's... — read more 

Heard RA is impacting c&c too, hybrid cloud, data, security, what’s gtm model look like next year for software. Back to geo based portfolio based?? Any insights??

Like the man who uses his house for wood to heat his house, IBM seems to be eating itself to keep itself alive. This cartoon below is so on target about IBM and its precarious predicament. IBM is so out of position for the new world of cloud and so... — read more 

May be as large as 20-30%. I was informed this morning that I am affected.

Having a process in place to make that decision will help you make one in line with your financial goals.... https://www.twincities.com/2020/11/14/your-money-should-your-layoff-become-your-retirement/

My manager told me today that there’s an RA that will come out soon in news. Any one have any insight on which BUs?

Is it just me or are most IBM employees just dogging it until they get laid off? I know I am.

IBM is showing you their future endeavors Enterprise engagements Everything else goes https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-acquire-sap-consulting-partner-130000863.html

I recently interviewed for a job for which I was very well qualified. There were multiple interviewers, and one of them happened to be an ex IBM employee. This person clearly had a beef with IBM. Obviously, she had been laid off in the past. Her body... — read more 

https://247wallst.com/technology-3/2020/11/10/nothing-can-help-ibm-dig-out-of-its-problems/

Future of digital sales?? Cover more enterprise accounts(remove more field sellers - everyone is digital now) or move more business to ecosystem business partners? We see this coming from WW C&C GM.

Big Blue said that the old facilities had become "unsuitable for upgrading." Just like IBM's old employees: "unsuitable for upgrading." https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ibm-close-data-centers-dallas-melbourne-and-houston/

Here in the United States, do you have job security until next March?

Happy Christmas! https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/12/hohoheave_ho_ibm_warn_global/

Just received this in the UK Cloud and Cognitive Software team. Invite for a call at 4pm. Expecting layoffs. Will keep you posted.

Dear friends, we just all received a VOLUNTARY offer to leave the company which expires in 4 weeks. The reason for this voluntary basis is that by virtue of a national decree ALL mass layoffs are frozen until March 21st 2021 due to the COVID... — read more 

Dear friend, Deep Throat here again. Some time has passed since my last correspondence (https://www.thelayoff.com/t/17rD5xvj) so I thought I would deliver some new insights. This time to focus on; Products remain/go. People, RA’s, Band AA churn, and... — read more 

IBM has trimmed its older businesses over the years to focus on the cloud, in an attempt to make up for slowing software sales and seasonal demand for its mainframe servers. And expect the trimming to accelerate and increase in volume, along... — read more 

Today in an interview with Jon Fortt at the CNBC Evolve summit, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna made it clear that his whole focus is going to be on transforming his organization into a hybrid cloud management vendor moving forward. That... — read more 

AK wasting no time cozying-up to POTUS-elect. . . https://www.ibm.com/blogs/policy/ibm-ceo-letter-to-president-elect-biden/

While exciting, IBM's quantum computing initiatives must be considered in context: no practical quantum computing systems exist today. I model a market... — read more 

Just publicly announced. Blames Covid-19 and Newco preps. Effective january '21.

Hi, has anyone tried to move from GTS (newco) to IBM after the NewCo announcement? They say there is a 60 days freeze and all moves have to go via some approval process... I'm thinking if they don't approve, I'll become a sitting duck.

I've been reading on this thread about how sales people are getting PIPs, performance improvement plans, which is totally a way to avoid saying they're doing "layoffs." They can say its performance based not cutting back work force. I'm in cloud data... — read more 

Beyond the rethoric of protecting diversity (just of the protected board, BOD & C.) inside this hypocrict firm which full his mouth of the sweet peace and love propaganda of we are all friends but none is equal to them, we are thrown out with... — read more