IBM to Lay Off Half of Global Services Division

[abg]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/04/1826221

IBM has begun massive layoffs in a quiet manner, starting with 1300 employees, but by the end of the year, the total will rise to at least 100,000 and probably closer to 150,000 employees, nearly 40% of their U.S. workforce. Some people will be temporarily retained as contractors at a fraction of their salary, and eventually, IBM will also dump many of the unprofitable customer contracts worked on by Global Services or outsource the work to Asia. If these people are looking for work, that could seriously drop wages for technical workers in the US since they will have to compete with these people for available jobs.

волна последует в Европу?

[tadpole]

http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/05/07/2116251.shtml

Rumors have been floating around saying IBM will cut 150,000 U.S. jobs, but a Network World story attempts to set the record straight by quoting analysts who say this news, if true, would wipe out the company's entire U.S. operations and would make no sense since IBM is actually doing pretty well.

Also: http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...m-layoffs.html

[dzher]

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[“LEAN is about offshoring and outsourcing at a rate never seen before at IBM,” Cringely reports. “For two years Big Blue has been ramping up its operations in India and China with what I have been told is the ultimate goal of laying off at least one American worker for every overseas hire. The BIG PLAN is to continue until at least half of Global Services, or about 150,000 workers, have been cut from the U.S. division.”]

GS are not 300k people - whole IBM is 350k heads.