Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Will it be the week of the 2nd or 9th?

@aa and how do you know that it happens in Q1 2027? Did Alvind's housemaid tell you that personally? They seem to favor more PIPs to save $$$$. After all, money talks and IBM is low on cash.

@w9 chance would be a fine thing. As long as you have Chairman Alvind, the US jobs will keep on a-moving....time for a reset and to show the arrogant losers who is running the show.

@OP How many RAs would you like ? Remember that F&O is filled over to the brim with useless executives, managers and Indian peons who do less than 1/6 of the work that US workers do and cost less too. Fire the majority who just sit around drinking chai and discussing the state of the world. After all, d-mb looks are still free.

There will be many more coming soon !

@qk Not only that but if not for the constant acquisitions IBM would have hit 30k US employees years ago. The cuts to Americans have been VERY deep - but they keep adding on more through M&A which maintains the illusion that this ship isn't sinking as fast as it is.

Isn’t weird right now silence - not knowing. Everything is business as usual. We all know it’s lurking and close. Managers are nice and cordial even smiling and asking about your children. But just a week or two away…..

RA’s and PIP’s should continue to be expected until the USA employee population gets down to 30k. NOTE RA’s will continue after that as SW division will always be cycling leading bleeding SW acquitions toward legacy maintenance over a 4 year time window. That means for almost all SW acquitions, support that is USA based will migrate over 4 years to Indian based just because it lowers costs substantially. THUS as long as IBM’s SW strategy is to buy innovation, RA’s will never really end.

@kt yup

One. My money is on 1st or 2nd week of November.

@fe when RA’ed , IBM contributes to the health coverage for few months. PIP’ed and you are on your own.

@fe if you want to get pipped don’t work much over 45 hours a week and work from home a bit when you aren’t supposed to and don’t answer emails and calls after hours. Dont do improvement projects. Only do what’s asked of you

@eg it's called winning in Q3 2026. LOL !

I'm hoping I'm on the list this time. I won't get PIP'ed so I'm hoping some bean counter in Armonk pulls my number despite my performance. Give me a package and just let me go. It would make the job hunting much more focused, and I'm in a position where I could survive for awhile once the severance runs out. At this point, it would be worse to have to stay than to be PIP'ed or RA'ed.

Who knows about precise timing. Ive seen RA’s postponed less than a week prior to their planned announcement date.

But there will be actions of nontrivial size in the foreseeable future. If the 2nd quarter budget miss and stock freefall didn’t clue you in, then the recent companywide expense controls with no exceptions for designated special business needs or previously granted approval might.

IBM has only 3 pillars of support. One, Red Hat, is milking the past, and they can’t let her run dry. The other two are speculative and many years in the future: Z/Arm hybrid mainframes to bring resiliency to the wider computing world and quantum computing to make some of the computationally impossible doable by changing the rules of the game.

A stool resting on one leg with the promise of two more legs when somebody gets around to it is not a good place on which to support a large company.

Wasn’t it officially stated one will happen in November?

One. It will happen sometime in the next 3-4 weeks. PIPs, however, will happen continuously and without end.

@ap Do you believe everything you hear?

Late October is usually a key date for the fall RA. One of the largest ones in many years happened in October 2024.
Good luck.
I was through many of these in my 18 years at IBM. They will never stop. They are standard business operations.

@aj Arvind said no more in 2026 earlier in year at some town hall or something

C'mon man get a life and WAKE UP! Either you do not work at IBM and have no clue and are looking to publish a "scoop" OR you do work at IBM and have nothing better to do then speculate about IBM's nonsense. IBM is actively scheming to rank everyone and rather than go through all the trouble and cost of laying people off; in the last 5 years or so their favorite hatchet tool is the mental and physical abuse of a PIP performance improvement plan that is like being water boarded every day until you just quit so IBM pays no RA severance etc.

None would have happened already

Last year it was announced after Q3 results.

None. Q1 it is.