Thread regarding IBM layoffs

@em sadly this isn’t your granddads ibm anymore.

@Dr. I think you point out an interesting fact concerning the medical retirement bridge for folks impacted in 2025. Add to that yet another 4500 folks from 2026 RA/PIP actions and that puts IBM USA at close to 35k total including the plants and research. If the plants/research employee population = 10k (research = 1.5, Austin = 4.5, RST = 2, POK = 2.5) then that says IBM USA on shore population is close to 8% of the worldwide IBM population. Remember Kyndryl let the 8% onshore fact out of the bag when they got spunoff. I believe that’s where managements target was set to all along when they began this offshore/make IBM younger experiment. Now that IBM has the employee numbers set to where they want them, it’s fish or cut bait to see if their go to market strategy works as the legacy employee savings have been rung out of NA and Northern EUrope

@OP keep in mind that the true numbers are still yet lower. That's because people like me who were "retired" last December have a years worth of cobra and therefore IBM medical and dental. That means that all of us who were forcibly retired, would be shown as active in this model. That makes some of these numbers an additional year out of date.

Very interesting, thanks for providing that info @OP.

@a7 that’s 52% in India. If you factor visa holders etc in the USA the number will jump up even more.

@OP THANK YOU!!!

This country is trying to build a wall to keep the wrong country out.

@a2 ibm is 52% Indian employees

Would be interesting to know how many of the 45k are Red Hat and subsequent acquisitions vs legacy IBMers.

IBM is an Indian company. Few US based engineers work for the Indian company.