Corona Virus wil be IBM’s free ticket to reduce staff aggressively within a couple months. As market uncertainty is causing clients to put project on hold, financial impact can (will) be huge. This will trigger yet again mass lay-off’s in all... — read more 

IBM sues Airbnb for patent infringement Mar. 11, 2020 4:37 PM ETIBMBy: Brandy Betz, SA News IBM (NYSE:IBM) is suing Airbnb (AIRB) for infringing on four patents related to e-commerce. The tech giant says "enough is enough" after six years... — read more 

Hmmmmmm. . . Now I wonder why Big Blew would be leasing a bunch of empty space at a location in India? https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/ibm-to-cognizant-global-tech-firms-ink-large-leasing-deals-in-bengaluru-120031000819_1.html — read more 

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It's a win-win for execs. They get paid millions no matter which direction the stock goes... IBM SAYS CEO VIRGINIA ROMETTY’S FY 2019 TOTAL COMPENSATION WAS $20.2 MILLION VERSUS $17.6 MILLION IN FY 2018 - SEC FILING IBM SAYS CFO JAMES... — read more 

AWS had the lunch, then they had dinner, slept, had breakfast, lunch and dinner the next day and for many, many days afterwards. Then, Ginni Rometty sometime very, very much later, thought maybe she might take a look at the "cloud" thing. Late to... — read more 

Just more smoke and mirrors and creative bucketizing & the analysts are wising-up to it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-10/ibm-says-it-s-no-3-in-cloud-revenue-analysts-stick-to-google

Honeywell also announced that it has the world’s fastest quantum computer, with a quantum volume of “at least 64, twice that of the next alternative in the industry. IBM looks to be the second fastest with a quantum volume of 32. Big Blew... — read more 

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/10/ibms_outgoing_boss_rometty_awarded_20m_in_2019_performance/?fbclid=IwAR0a1tKmXe4oVeVxwPsBkNxldQZzFEfvsprl3DczkCKxW8Fh5Hzc6j3WD7s

"IBM Switzerland is planning job cuts at its divisions Global Technology Service (GTS) and Global Business Service (GBS) divisions" https://www.telecompaper.com/news/ibm-switzerland-planning-job-cuts-report–1329635

They will do bench management instead. In the UK, there will be >100 people let go at end of April. The consultation period starts next week. In other countries, there’s barely anyone left locally in GBS other than in Germany and they can’t... — read more 

HI - Anyone have a rough estimate for this month and Q2? $30 Million? Perhaps this will enable them to defer expected layoffs a bit longer?

An amusing and truly sad review, Atta boy, cloud mastermind Arvind! Atta boy! IBM's sure to gain plenty of marketshare with this. https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/5-takeaways-from-poking-around-ibm-cloud/

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Your thoughts? This is my gut feeling and I may be 100% wrong. I think this time is different and that they will keep RAs on hold due to COVID19. Whoever starts cutting now will get so much bad press it'll be incredible. Even United with 50% of... — read more 

Here go. COVID-19 will be the convenient excuse for why Q2 and maybe Q3 and Q4 numbers get missed. https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-think-canceled-employees-large-events-coronavirus-fears-2020-3

Ironic that IBM releases yet another story on "new collar" jobs now just before expected big RAs. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-23-year-old-landed-job-ibm-without-college-degree CaNese "Cece" Curvin, 23, recently landed a full-time tech... — read more 

Littleton Band 10 here - Was told by a Band C that optics of announcing large layoff soon after Ginny announced retirement were deemed horrible. Corporate decided to delay - she did not know if delay was until end of March or May. I will... — read more 

There is a possibility that I might go for it – wanted to see if you can help me find out what the total compensation would be. Anyhow, this is for a postion with IBM Research located in Yorktown Heights. I have about 10 years of relevant... — read more 

I am about to retire from IBM in six months and I really hope there is no a hidden RA lurking somewhere that will complicate this plan. Anyhow, here is my advice to younger folks (get ready for some semi-organized rambling): Pay attention to... — read more 

What's the impact and what are your thoughts?

Big Blew blaming the customer again for a failed contract. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/02/ibm_co_op_insurance_project_cobalt_trial/

No surprise: we all knew it was all hype & B.S. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmarkman/2020/02/28/ibms-recovery-becoming-cloudier/

Looks like RedHatters have been getting hit: reports of more RAs there and a re-org. – https://www.thelayoff.com/t/13hlUJy1#replies

Some detailed information in the article. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/27/ibm_redundancies_gts/?fbclid=IwAR2LiPhkGaVXXc9DMz69ulMSZ9GcqHkm8u9MkDdDTPSi3PLv-8VOq-FENBI

My colleague has a meeting Monday with her manager to review her 2020 Checkpoint goals - she believes this is her RA notification call - Thoughts?

We were once you. We were once fresh faced young single professionals who had limitless amounts of time to focus solely on our careers and begin climbing the corporate ladder. We too mocked the older generation of tech workers of our day. In... — read more 

Any rumblings going on around the world about RA’s the day? I thought maybe there would be some news or maybe it’s the quiet before the storm

With Ginni deciding to step down and taking a board position this is legalized organized crime at it’s finest. Driving the company revenue down from 104b down to 77b. Cooking the books to show cloud growth by combining and removing Other revenue... — read more 

WIBM: It looks like GTS UK is trying to get around the consultation rules by informing each "business unit" eg IS Non Delivery that the amount of people needed to be made redundant is under 20..... therefore no consultation. Not sure if this is legal... — read more 

I was ”Resource Action” two years ago, 14 days notice, 1 month severance. I had been with IBM for close to 5 years, before that, worked on a company that IBM acquired in 2013 for more than 10 years (they told me those years didn’t count). Many of my... — read more 

What is the lowest % of personnel from the US so that the company still keeps the US look and feel? If there is a team of 20 people in India/China/Mexico etc, led by 1-2 people in the US, the US folks are still the most visible and make the most... — read more 

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Getting ready for another layoff. Seems to be all US based. Heard as much as 10 percent. My area was higher. Cloud is heavily impacted.

Just crossed the one year anniversary after leaving. Making a lot more money, much better benefits, vastly more relevant tech and improving my skills. Is it perfect? Nope. Every company has issues. But at least they're because the company is... — read more 

They are pushing lower levels to move into billable slots. Also the new collar people will be taking the place of off shore workers since they can pay them $5 more than local retail jobs in the US and be more cost effective than offshore billing... — read more 

IBM Belgium just informed the unions their intention to layoff staff. Number of employees impacted currently unknown. More information to come in the coming weeks.

I met all of my objectives year in year out since 2010. Surpassed expectations on more objectives than I met. Does not mean anything. Few seem to know what’s going on. Those who do know, they fear reprisal. So, no one has got your... — read more 

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