I’ve checked out the AT&T board on this site and spoke to a few people familiar with the matter, and it all points to the situation where AT&T-ers all believe that they are basically rebadged to IBM just to change their replacements. But could it be the other way around? Should we be afraid for our positions, due to the flow of workers from AT&T?
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No one knows how thing are gonna be in a big companies like AT&T or IBM. It's all chaos. Anything is possible. You might end up working there for another 15 years or might be let go tomorrow morning. Nothing is a big surprise.
Got internal confirmation,AT&T employees who are rebadge to join IBM effective 1-step-2019 were told for next 12 months there will be no impact to them(means no RA for them).I am expecting next year around step-oct timeframe AT&T employees will be impacted.Also got internal news in One of All hands meeting ,spokesperson someone from Finance leadership that restructuring cost will continue in 2nd half of this year and next year 2020.So I am assuming plan is One RA sometime in August end or sept this year as part of GTS/GBS merger and another one in mar or June timeframe next year and then in Sep-October 2020,AT&T employees will be impacted.
Poor AT&T employees ,they don't know what sh– they are coming in.
Good points but I believe "anybody" other than Ginni and the BoD is at risk. Well, maybe the C-Suite in Armonk too,
Get out now ! - IBM is not a good place to be.
When I went through that, there was a shift in and out. All the good people went out to better assignments, and were backfilled by b players moving back in.
That said, if you're not offshore, make over 50k, or are over 40, then heck yeah, you're at risk.