There are so many people leaving they don’t need to do layoffs this year
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@126 can confirm.
The fallout of that RA was a peek under the curtain of how poorly strategy was managed last year.
the company is slowly being cannibalized by ai and knows it. and its shareholders are addicted to dividends that require free cash. layoffs are expensive, so reducing severance cost via pips could be strategic. the cheapest way to unload long term overhead.
@10v There an RA this week last year. It was designed to be as silent as possible. Oyr team lost some valuable team members. We assumed at first, these people took some long vacation for the end of the year. In January, we discovered it. we were discouraged to mention the names of these people in any meeting or communication. The expectation was that people forget their colleagues and do not ask questions.
@e9 i hit my 25 year anniversary this year and was offered the transition to retirement. When i said no i was put on a PIP with impossible goals. Week of Nov 9 is end date and I'm expecting to be let go then. Lines up with what other people have said.
RAs are coming the week of Nov 9th based on what I have heard informally.
So, we will have to wait until then to see if that is really true.
@kk that’s just evil
@kq keep the number of affected employees by the RA below 50 in each site.
@kk there was no warn last year? Really? Wow. I am really asking not being sarcastic. How the he-l did IBM strategically engineer avoiding warn act?!
@H1. IBM has always played follow the leader with the competing industries. MIcrosoft opened the door this week with their 60k employee notice. Google, Amazon, Intel, along with other high tech flyers this week have hinted that their spending on AI may not pay off. Do you really think IBM will not play follow the leader and capitalize on the chaos?
@h1 no WARN notice was done last year when two whole departments were RA’d.
@hc or a certain percent of the plant
@h1 The layoff can happen without WARN, if the number of employees affected is belw 50.
There are no WARN act submissions. So there will be no layoff in 2026
@f3 exactly, the permission structure is now in place. IBM also offered older workers retirement early packages in some divisions earlier this summer. They’ll either extend those like Microsoft did to all employees or just do their typical November RA.
@ey lol and be sure to personally thank you managers and leaders
"Only the departed have seen the end of RAs at IBM"
--Plato
You really are asking this? Microsoft just announced a voluntary downsizing for 28% of their worldwide employees. Do you really think IBM will not downsize accordingly? The question boils down to “How”. IBM seems to be on the slash and burn path (RA/PIP) as that allows them to backfill with lower cost alternatives.
@e9 who where??
There were people let go last week (EMEA) - so RAs are going on as such with package and those via PIP. :(
Of course there will be RA’s, same as last November. If you are a B9 or B10 you are a target especially if you’re in cloud. Don’t think for a minute that you are important or can’t be replaced. Leadership doesn’t care about your tribal knowledge or workload, it will just get shifted to someone else’s or drop to the waist basket all together. It’s a total disaster.
Of course we're fishing for information why the F else would we come here?
@c0 YessireeBob, wheels are turning. There'll be subtle signs you're next. The manager's smile suddenly turning dark. The vas---ne surreptitiously appearing on your boss's desk. Don't be fooled by the light. Truth lies in shadows.
@bv yup buckle up buckaroos! We are all about to get bu-----ked next week. Enjoy the peace and calm you feel right now because literally just around the corner. Your managers know. They will look you directly in the eye and smile and act like everything is all good but next week the will give you the axe
Correct, there will be no more RAs this year. So rest assured. IBM will find other ways to sc--w you. Like PIPs doomed to failure. So no more RAs. Just don't be-dover
https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/s/3O3WFIB8GP
Ive been told by 2 different people working on it that cloud has one coming in Nov for the US. They will move those roles to India.
@ay correct Arvind said earlier in year no layoffs in 2026
be assured, no layoff before the end of the year.
@af the spring one never happened though
Right this moment is the calm before the storm
The one that occurred last year happened this coming week
Yes