RA in Perth, WA, Australia started yesterday (30th Mar 2017). All zsystems BU personnel to be made redundant. A couple of non-zsystems BU projects continuing. Approx 30+ RA'd just in Perth.

Even Watson got hit. I regret joining IBM every minute of every day. If I get RA'ed I will name drop every single person that f---ed up the Watson Health group.

http://wraltechwire.com/ibm-confirms-new-layoffs-as-part-of-a-talent-remix-/16615827/ Research Triangle Park, N.C. — A Facebook page set up to give voice to IBM workers lit up Thursday with employees reporting another round of layoffs. An IBM... — read more 

Head over to glassdoor.com and put in your review of IBM and it gives you a chance to rate the CEO, who just took a five million dollar bonus for about 33 million compensation in 2016, all for twenty straight quarters of revenue decline under her... — read more 

I just received word that I am part of a new RA. Starts today with a 90 day RA package. I'm going to dial into my dept meeting to hear how large it will be and will post and update later. I have been with IBM for over 17 yrs.

They just laid off and wiped out an entire department at the Lincoln NE location. No notice just came in to work was laid off with 20+ other employees.

Do not lift a finger to do any work for the company during the entire 90 days. Log on to SameTime as Do Not Disturb every day. Spend ALL of your time looking for another job outside IBM. What are they going to do, fire you? Do not feel guilty. IBM... — read more 

Multiple groups being affected - will post more info as I learn more...

The IPM is an RA hiding behind a performance management review and takes entire departments into mandatory PIP from which there is no real way to exit: if your division funded only 50% of your bonus pool you are automatically on the mandatory pip... — read more 

Large cuts in S&D technical sales and software technical sales. Of the ones I know are in their 50s or older, several in top achieving accounts with top level performance reviews, multiple 10mm deals in last couple of years. All about costs. Several... — read more 

So the mass movement of employees back to office space is in progress. Innovative? No. New, fresh, breakthrough? Please. This is a disguised mass layoff and cost cutting move, nothing more. The people who can't or won't move are established... — read more 

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/innovative-ibm-kills-working-from-home-bruce-kasanoff

RA's in S&S Renewals on Friday. They were told they were the lowest sales performers against the new metric they put in place, based on the last two years of performance. These are individuals with above average performance reviews. April 24th is... — read more 

https://m.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/24/ibmers_in_same_division_given_second_redundo_scheme_in_as_many_months/ IBM UK appears to have fired the starting gun on a 2.0 redundancy programme for the Infrastructure Services Delivery division – before the... — read more 

Just start from ~8:05 and play until the end: the not so thinly veiled messages are very clear. . . http://finance.yahoo.com/video/ibm-ceo-rometty-growing-cloud-193818106.html

Just saying, it kind of puts things into perspective.

https://qz.com/924167/ibm-remote-work-pioneer-is-calling-thousands-of-employees-back-to-the-office/

Full thread on Oracle's board here: @Mo2exBG

http://wraltechwire.com/ibm-s-pledge-to-hire-vets-triggers-mix-of-reactions-anger/16594897/ Research Triangle Park, N.C. — IBM's announced pledge Friday to hire 2,000 veterans and its public push about open jobs within the tech giant triggered a wave... — read more 

Geeee I wonder how Ginni plans to get the share price to increase significantly by the time she turns 60 in July, which is the traditional age at which IBM CEO's have retired? We can only wonder. . ... — read more 

~15min. segment. It's all worth watching, but particularly from ~9:55 - 11:07. Just unbelievably sickening. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-u-s-jobs-vulnerable-to-workers-with-h-1b-visas/

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6245973754451677184/ Attention Hiring Managers. You are about to get very lucky. A tidal wave of extremely talented marketing professionals is about to hit the market. After 15 years—and a track... — read more 

Sure, Ginni sits next to Trump today and promises to hire 2,000 veterans. Of course, she lies as much as he does so if they even hire any, they'll be at starter salaries, to take the place of the thousands she has laid off over these past years. They... — read more 

Here is coverage from Boulder Daily Camera Portal... Link below: By Shay Castle, Staff Writer - Employees allege age discrimination in workforce reduction, Workers report layoffs at IBM in Boulder, nationally Source:... — read more 

This should make Ginni happy: plenty of fresh RA fodder! https://www.ft.com/content/8595e7a2-076f-11e7-97d1-5e720a26771b

https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/03/10/5-signs-international-business-machines-corp-needs.aspx

Wow, just heard a rumor from several of my long time friends at IBM that they are looking to sell off the Power business and AMD is in talks. With the recent senior management shuffle, theres been lots of talks on how they plan to hide the massive... — read more 

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/news/2017/03/09/pennsylvania-wolf-fraud-ibm-60-million-budget.html Gov. Tom Wolf announced Thursday his administration is suing IBM for fraud, claiming the Armonk, N.Y.-based tech corporation received a $170... — read more 

This is by Sara Blackwell:

This is on German Marketing layoffs, the post was shared on WIBM and S8 so far, justa dding it here so folks can see what's going on: In Germany the marketing organization has been reduced about 30% in Feb. The change has been communicated via a conf... — read more 

Completed the GDP discussion, the manager is an &#&$& - nothing communicated during the meeting was going in my favor, but I did get that 'make an extra push in 2017, this is your year, time to excel' - I am sick of this, as I am hearing the same... — read more 

I was let go in 2014, I am hearing about smaller RAs happening right now. Whatever happens most of you will be just fine, you've got skills and it does not get much worse than what you have right now.

Aside from the large outsourcing companies, IBM (IBM) was seventh with close to 1,500 H-1B hirings. https://www.thestreet.com/story/13971370/1/how-reliant-are-tech-behemoths-amazon-and-apple-on-h-1b-visas.htm The Trump administration's policies on... — read more 

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-suspends-expedited-h-1b-visa-approvals-foreign-workers-n729101 Sounds like a impetus in the right direction.

IBM Australia has just handed redundancy notice to all Bid Managers. So as of 1 June All Bid Managers will no longer exist. No exceptions. This was done under the ‘Accelerate Transformation’ Program and I am almost certain that this will be a global... — read more 

https://which-50.com/ibm-australia-wields-axe/ IBM has embarked on a major redundancy campaign, and is this week cutting staff all over the world. IBM’s Australian staff affected by the change have started receiving their notices. Some staff at Big... — read more 

IBM cares not about loosing skills! This collocation program has everyone, even managers, sweating in their boots. No one is out of harms way. If you are single or able to move a young family it may be an adventure. But for those who have been loyal... — read more 

Bet the guy or group that patented this won't be getting RA'd. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/stupid-patent-month-ibm-patents-out-office-email