Does anybody know how many employees will be laid off during the 2025 RA? I heard Q2C should be heavily impacted this year (jobs will be primarly moved to India ani Philippines). Aby insider info on this?

https://www.businessinsider.com/deloitte-accenture-job-fears-doge-consulting-contracts-trump-musk-2025-3 "IBM. reported Business Insider."... — read more 

Still has not even apologized for his overt bigotry to Whites and East Asians. He instead gets rewarded with 86 Million in stock. His callousness and massive ago won't let him say, "I was wrong and will end DEI at IBM" All while him and his DipMunks... — read more 

U.S. F&O resources informed to relocate to RTP or Poughkeepsie or get the heck out. https://internationalfinance.com/technology/ibm-under-fire-return-office-order-suspected-replacing-human-staff-with-ai/

Please share what you can. Last day, duration of notice, amount of severance, business unit, others that you know are affected. Thx

City, division.

http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/07/IBM_Laid_Off_Almost_2_000_Staff_Last_Friday_and_No_Western_Publ.shtml

https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2025/03/05/ibm-data-security-red-hat-middleware-units-combine.html

If you are laid off tomorrow March 6, tell us which division, position and state or country you live in. Any severance package?

Kind of hard to hear the CEO defend poor quality vs speed during the CEO hour. Equated Netflex speed to acquire new customers vs doing a quality job. Hint, IBM has low backlog and with federal government layoffs many federal contracts have gone away... — read more 

Not major news but we hear about this as the market dumps. Sold at $253 and change When Alvind and his DipMunks got their awarded shares in January they were in the $254 range They need to hold for a minimum amount of time and they can’t dump... — read more 

https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/02/ibm-contract-overseas-cyber-assistance-canned-amid-usaid-shutdown/403350/ about to lose some big contracts with the US... — read more 

https://pandaily.com/ibm-china-investment-company-and-subsidiaries-to-cease-operations-on-march-1/ https://www.techinasia.com/ibm-to-shut-another-chinese-subsidiary-impacting-1800-jobs

https://seekingalpha.com/news/4415666-booz-allen-severely-exposed-to-trumps-proposed-federal-contract-cuts-wsj "justify consulting contracts from 10 companies - including Booz Allen (NYSE:BAH), Accenture (ACN), IBM (IBM) and Deloitte" IBM also... — read more 

https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/28/IBM_is_Trading_Employees_for_Revenue_Acquired_by_Buying_Compani.shtml

https://www.businessinsider.com/companies-requiring-return-to-office-rto-mandate "IBM At the start of 2024, IBM told managers to either come into offices or leave the company. IBM asked all US managers to report to an office or client location... — read more 

It's not fair. IBM is demanding that employees return to the office when managers can work remotely.

Which company is IBM buying next?

https://www.thestack.technology/ibm-to-buy-cassandra-specialist-datastax/

It’ll be Krabanaugh talking about how we need to learn more skills Followed by more drivel then thanking us. Meanwhile GDP will be a joke while he enjoys his 37 Million in stock awards For what ? Dropping the ax and moving jobs to Alvinds... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/24/ibm_consulting/

https://spectator.sme.sk/business/c/ibm-to-lay-off-hundreds-in-bratislava

http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/IBM_s_CEO_Has_Become_a_Stochastic_Buzzword_Generating_Machine.shtml

IBM has faced significant criticism for its treatment of older employees, with accusations of age discrimination becoming more prevalent in recent years. The company has consistently carried out layoffs, often affecting long-term employees, which has... — read more 

And very soon it will be climbing higher. . . https://www.wsj.com/articles/it-unemployment-rises-to-5-7-as-ai-hits-tech-jobs-7726bb1b Artificial intelligence continues to impact the technology labor market By: Belle Lin Feb. 7, 2025 7:08 pm... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/ibm_colocation_program_described_as/

My manager called and she said role is being made redundant. Standard 6 months salary severance voluntary package offered. Nothing this company does surprises me anymore... Good luck to everyone out there.

What you made is just useless quantum chip that has huge error rate! And good luck surviving the PIP layoffs!

No other information to add, just heard it mentioned that there was an announcement to all Partners in IBMC today and rest of IBMC to hear maybe tomorrow or after? Not the new performance program (checkpoint replacement) as that was already... — read more 

As in 2024, the current RA focuses again primarily at reducing the level of working in Support Functions all over Europe. Around 70% of the current reduction target is aimed at IBM’s Q2C and Enterprise Operations & Support (EO&S)... — read more 

“AI is coming, and the next layer…of innovation is quantum.” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on the future of the tech industry. So long as the Street believes it. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/Tv/video/ibm-ceo-on-the-future-of-the-tech-industry — read more 

The leadership in the Coppell office has a plan to increase sales : In September they forced us to work 1 extra hour per day. Next month - back to the office full time. This is what happens when you have “leaders” that don’t know how to lead... — read more 

The transfer of all roles to IBM is targeted for May 2025. Welcome aboard Red Hatters! AK masterminded buying you, AK will finally begin assimilating you! Evolving our middleware strategy --... — read more 

Someone posted in the GDP Thread but if nobody saw, Alvind got over 325,000 shares valued at almost $255 a share His Pipmunks like Kavanaugh got over 143K shares I get it C suite staff get the perks but this is greed especially when they cry the... — read more 

Anyone know of a good US based employment legal firm to contact? Was told I'm on a PIP and will be laid off. I have a disability (it's noted in my records) and over retirement age. The client and client partner made up some stories about me, lets... — read more 

India 2289 US 317 Should tell you all you need to know about the future of IBM.

If you feel like there is a bullseye painted on your back, read a piece titled The Hatchet Man's Playbook. Can't recommend it highly enough - a LOT of eye-poppping, non-obvious stuff!

https://itc.ua/en/news/ibm-launches-soft-return-to-offices-program-with-relocation-requirement-provoking-layoffs-in-favor-of-ai/

https://www.techradar.com/pro/ibm-return-to-office-order-hits-finance-ops-teams-amid-push-to-dump-staff-for-ai

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/ibm_return_to_office_mandate/