Thought the layoff news was over at IBM? Think again.
“Just when I thought I missed the cuts got the call first thing this morning. Mixed feelings I love my job and my IBM team members but have to look at this now as an opportunity to leave this toxic environment,” an IBM employee in RTP posted Monday on the Alliance at IBM website.
“Hundreds” are being laid off in N.C., WRALTechWire reported last week, based on a source familiar with the details. However, as reports continue to come out about job cuts, Big Blue has not filed anything official with the state of North Carolina about layoffs, which are part of a $1 billion “rebalancing.”
The initial news of IBM layoffs last week generated media attention worldwide, but in the days since then reporters and publications have moved on to other news, not bothering to report the latest casualty figures. Not WRALTechWire.
As we have in years past, WRALTechWire will continue to provide updates and coverage of the latest reduction in Big Blue’s U.S. and Canadian work force.
The latest update based on internal documents provided by IBM workers to Alliance at IBM (the union seeking to represent them) shows more than 2,800 North American employees stand to lose their jobs. They are spread across 42 work groups.
The latest info:
- STG Storage Systems Development: 121
- STG lab Services and Tech Training: 52
- STG Test Site Design: 59
- STG SSE Intellectual Property: 64
- BT/IT CIO Enterprise Transformation: 4
- Corporate Marketing and Communication: 83
- Software Group tivoli: 98
- Software group WW Services and Education: 22
- STG Semiconductor Research and Dev: 165
- SO Delivery Integrated Competencies: 46
- GPS Solutions and Delivery: 116
- Software Group Marketing: 222
- Research: 65
- GBS AMS IBM Global Account: 123
- STG Operations and Transformation: 34
- Software Group NA Software Sales: 63
- SO sectors (GSSR): 31
- Software Group Information Management: 137
- Software group Industry Solutions: 126
- STG High Speed links, Cores and Memory: 67
- SO Delivery HQ Cloud Development and Delivery: 40
- GBS AMS Commercial Delivery: 27
- STG Power Software Development: 64
- GBS PS BusinessAnalytics: 39
- STG Pureflex & System X Software Development: 32
- STG Advanced Microelectronics Solutions: 114
- STG Worldwide Client Care: 30
- STG IBM 1 Development: 60
- TG System Z Software Development: 45
- Software Group Security: 22
- STG ISV Global Support: 35
- IBM S&D Communications Sector: 3
- Software Group Rational: 59
- ISC Sales Transaction Support OIST: 70
- STG Systems Technology Development: 24
- SWG Application and Integration Middleware: 86
- STG Systems Solutions Dev: 56
- GBS CS Industrial Sector: 32
- STG Electronic Design Automation: 106
- STG Competitive lab and Technical Sales Centers: 35
- Software Group Collaboration: 115
- STG Storage (ISSA): 41
Total cut so far: 2833
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