I am hearing contrary information that some business units within IBM are getting 3% company match and some business units are getting 6% company match for 401k? What is the truth? What is real 401k company percent match people are getting in... — read more 

Make no mistake the Red Hat purchase is a Hail Mary play to mask the steady and consistent failure to manage strategic choices effectively by the Board's choice of CEO. The goal "then" was to reinvent the company into high margin high growth... — read more 

[As a tie-in to recent previous post: @10Euo6GF ] Winners Chinese companies: Notably Huawei benefits because it can now build 5G infrastructure, network switches, and IoT components using Power architecture. And, potentially, smartphone... — read more 

[Elevating from a comment to a standalone post here] – @VZzqzzM-4Gyoa

IBM Senior Executives are supposed to retire/leave at age 60. Ginni is there and IBM needs her gone. IBM needs some young new blood in the Senior Executive levels and the current wave of Senior Executives jumping from the sinking ship, IBM, proves... — read more 

Does IBM offer a pension plan nowadays? Many companies had it in #gold days.

Can someone shine some light on Australia staff cuts?

But IBM has spent decades getting to this low point, dumping older workers and paying those who remain less than competitors. https://investorplace.com/2019/08/ibm-stock-and-jim-whitehursts-toughest-test/

The acquisition of Red Hat has completed, hasn't it?

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/

If you’re a regular InvestorPlace reader and own shares of IBM (NYSE:IBM), you might be familiar with some of my articles criticizing CEO Ginni Rometty. She’s a big reason I wouldn’t own IBM stock. Linux-maker Red Hat Purchase Adds Risk to Owning... — read more 

I hear that GBS is planning layoffs in the UK beginning q4. Anyone have info about other geographies?

Keep in mind, Mrs. Rometty is an active Board member of the BRT as noted in the following previous posts: ... — read more 

Voluntary sabbaticals being offered in several countries. GBS. 6-12 month term for 35% salary.

Over the following five years, IBM weathered a decline in profits as it invested in new sectors, forcing it to let go of thousands of its 350,000 employees worldwide. But while CEO Ginni Rometty knew that overcoming those challenges would... — read more 

More B.S. from Fletcher. . . https://www.techrepublic.com/article/it-pyramid-of-pain-how-the-cio-of-ibm-retains-top-tech-talent/

Who's surprised? https://insights.dice.com/2019/08/13/ibm-senior-software-engineer-pay-microsoft-apple/

Some numbers from the UK. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/15/ibm/

Why no posts here on Boulder layoffs?

“That strength and that mantra about really changing the world hasn’t changed at Red Hat,” he says, noting that concerns Red Hat team members have had have been openly addressed by IBM’s management team. And as Red Hat moves forward under... — read more 

Or are you determined to stick it out until retirement?

There are 19 times more applicants with a Bachelor's Degree than those with a MBA. 69% of applicants have a Bachelor's Degree. 21% have no degree. 4% have a MBA. Bachelor's Degree (69%) Undisclosed (21%) Master's of Business... — read more 

IBM was able to manufacture the "other factor" that it needed. This is a well-known trick to older workers, it's called "suddenly stupid." Someone who's risen to become an accomplished expert, someone who knows the history of a place and has... — read more 

Would someone be kind and explain what is IBM band 5? Thank you!

IBM’s cloud infrastructure takes a “full stack” security approach—covering applications, data, operating system, and hardware, said Rob Thomas, general manager of IBM Data and AI. “A lot of security issues don’t come in at the app layer... — read more 

https://mindmatters.ai/2019/08/why-was-ibm-watson-a-flop-in-medicine/

I work in Legal in one of the USA offices. I will be the first to say that everyone on this board is 100% incorrect about IBM being guilty of age discrimination. So many people on this site are complaining because they got RA'd (very sorry to hear)... — read more 

https://www.reddit.com/r/newIBM/comments/cntdiq/ibmleicestersaveyourselfbeforeitstoo_late/

I’m not sure you are correct about IBM being over, BUT Ginni still is the CEO so we’ll see. IBM has to make some desperate changes if they are to survive this and come out on the other end. Gerstner dumped 30% of the company to save it. The new CEO... — read more 

IBM is at the inflection point of the turn-around and will return to sustainable long-term growth in the next year. The valuation does not reflect the improvements revenue composition and the consequent growth and margin outlook. I... — read more 

Not that fast... Lisa Su denies rumors that she's taking over IBM. AMD CEO Lisa Su denied a rumor that she wants to replace Ginni Rometty as IBM's chief exec, but experts say that IBM could do a lot worse than this 'superstar' AMD CEO Lisa... — read more 

Paragraphs 3, 5, 6, and 8 contain some serious smoke-blowing, particularly paragraphs 3 and 8: At a long-awaited webcast with analysts on Friday, IBM laid out the rationale and financial impact of the Red Hat acquisition. (You can see the... — read more 

Seems the rumor mill is churning. . . https://www.tweaktown.com/news/66933/amd-ceo-lisa-su-rumored-leave-eyeing-role-ibm/index.html

To summarize, under Rometty, IBM has 1) fully embraced the productivity toilet that is the open plan office, 2) eschewed the massive productivity boost of widespread telecommuting, and 3) replaced its most experienced and tech-savvy... — read more 

Can anybody confirm this?

The investors call just finished. The summary boils down to IBM has changed strategy to redhat’s, built around OpenShift and openStack. IBM will focus on building services around these going forward with their “extensive services” operations... — read more 

Former HR VP Says IBM Wanted to Look 'Cool' to Millennials, Fired 100,000 Workers Lucian Armasu | Aug 1, 2019 7:08 am ET https://amp.tomshardware.com/news/ibm-class-action-age-lawsuit-100000-fired,40064.html

Well... today was the day. RA notice for a 61 year old, with 30 + years, in Watson Customer Engagement division, working out of New Hampshire USA. No surprise,.. was hit with RA twice before but was able to jump to another division in IBM with... — read more 

Sad. IBM hardest company in the world to work for. I think their attrition by millennials sums up the state of wwork place. Most don't even know what the letters IBM stand for.

I've heard from 2 IBMer's that they have odd meeting scheduled for today with their managers (with no details in the meeting invite, no subject/topic, and short notice– the invites came in last night & this morning). In both cases, when the IBMer... — read more