The ‘inside’ rumor mill at IBM has the company on the precipice of announcing layoffs at Big Blue.
According the web site Alliance at IBM, employees at the Research Triangle Park facility in Raleigh, NC would likely be impacted. Although the site does mention other sites as well that might be in line for what IBM calls a ‘resource action’.
[…] IBM wouldn’t discuss the reports.
“As you know, we don’t comment on speculation and rumor,” IBM’s Doug Shelton said when contacted by Local Tech Wire and WRAL.com.
Employees at a WebSphere development and support lab in Silicon Valley have reported a “big RA” is expected there with an “estimated 40-50%” of the staff to be “RA’d” on Monday, according to a post on the Alliance@IBM Web site. The Alliance is the union affiliate that is seeking to represent IBM workers.
Other posts at the Alliance site comments section (Read the comments section here) indicate that workers in the IBM Systems and Technology Group and the Integrated Technology Delivery groups could be affected.
The increasing number of posts and other information funneled to the Web site led the Alliance to issue an alert to selected media outlets on Saturday morning.
“The Alliance@IBM is getting reports of a job cut/resource action for Monday March 1st,” wrote Alliance National Coordinator Lee Conrad.
“We always expect cuts,” Conrad told Local Tech Wire and WRAL.com. “It is the date that is the guessing game.”
Other workers in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are already being affected.[…] (Source: WRAL)
That seems to be the new normal these days, need to increase margins? Layoff more and more workers. They have to keep those shareholders happy you know.
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