My heart goes out to those impacted by today's RA's. Real bad timing. Has Systems (Power, Storage) been impacted at all? There is life beyond IBM, believe me.

Seeing a lot of other divisions, but haven't heard much on Cloud. I was part of Cloud and given the same 30 day notice today.

Try to work with headhunters, not ideal and a lot of shady things in this space but if you find a good one go with her/him... I work for a competitor and I just hired a guy in his early 60s. A good headhunter will help you adjust your resume and... — read more 

The open power team has been let go along with other power engineers. Looks like we are moving out of growth and only going to focus on existing enterprise customers. Ugly day in Austin and other power sites.

Today (Thursday May 21, 2020) IBM is laying off almost the entire provider side of Watson Health... Its going to be a pretty huge RA. Visiant is partnering with IBM and will be taking over that market... They used to be called... — read more 

I'm in IBM Data AI in Silicon Valley Lab. Are there any others from south bay area that were let go recently?

Any updates on what’s going on in GBS?

At least 6 people were cut from my group today. Looks like it could be far more.

Got Cut - I think 8 from my team along with me. 30 days notice 90 days pay. Continuation of medical benefits is available.

Got cut today with a few others, worked for GTS hybrid cloud services.

I and the entire team I manage (15) were RA'ed. TCIS. Another two managers and their teams in my group were also whacked. Anything non-cloud related got cut.

I just got RA. All team were impacted. Last day June 22..

Hope this helps some people - Feel free to add https://www.thebalancecareers.com/laid-off-fired-questions-1918596 https://thriveglobal.com/stories/10-questions-to-ask-your-employer-if-you-get-laid-off/

According to what I have been told One month before exit. 3 months severance Possible offer of health coverage at existing rate for 12 months GBS is being hit hard too. Heard predictions of up to 60% and 30% of GTS. Told by Senior Executive... — read more 

Well they were questioning the bad PR that would come from doing this during Covid... Especially since its not Covid related and is instead because of the new partnership... This was planned before Covid. Looks like in the end it didn't... — read more 

No changes: 30 days notice, 90 days severance... Health benefits can run for up to a year at the existing rate, after that you are switching to COBRA.

so we dont have to pay it when we RA you... And we thought Ginni was the culprit.

US action is this Thursday. Manager training was yesterday (Monday) and they were told notification details will be email today. If a manager is being notified that has team members in the action too they will be notified Wednesday.

IBM Security, received a 1:1 meeting request today from my manager for tomorrow (Thursday). Any indication as to whether laid off US employees will get an extension of their health insurance?

This just in from anon: FYI - RA in progress for GTS. No information on #s but the announcements are supposed to come out tomorrow. Even India resources are being impacted - Cloud Migration ... — read more 

“Ginni Rometty is one of the most accomplished business leaders of our time — leading IBM’s resurgence during an extremely competitive and ever-changing environment. We are so fortunate to attract another outstanding director to our board... — read more 

Up to 40% of WH will be cut on Thursday, Manager RAs on Wednesday.

Distressing that we aren't hearing chatter regarding RIFFs because we aren't in the office. They are happening this week guys. Managers notified Wednesday, all others Thursday. No RIFFs for Directors and above in this cycle.

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I am hearing that there are RAs already in progress in Australia. Any truth in this?

There must be something in the water at Armonk. Who in their right mind would voluntarily leave for another job during this pandemic? Especially since many tech organizations have put a hold on hiring at this time. Aside from the fact that many... — read more 

Good news, but it'll get settled before it gets to trial, just like the rest of them. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/14/ibm_commission_appeal/

So much money wasted to set up open offices that will have to revert back once we go back to work (unless they plan to leave it as it is, which is a recipe for disaster.) Or they decide to let all of us work from home, which, in my book, would be a... — read more 

In short, there is no enough volunteers - "To date, we have not been able to meet our business objectives through the voluntary separation programme and if this remains the case following the closure of the EOI window on Wednesday 13th May it. Will... — read more 

Slack - Everyone WFH until September Amazon IT - Everyone WFH until October. Microsoft - Everyone will be WFH until October. Workers with families get 12 weeks of PTO to be used 2 days each week to deal with extended school... — read more 

Our new CEO addressed layoffs at his office hours meeting today. I like that he is honest and talks straight unlike Ginny, A very nice change, I wish he was in charge years back. For those that DO NOT work at IBM I will not say what he said because I... — read more 

First, Let’s Fire All the Managers, Harvard Business Review Management is the least efficient activity in your organization. Think of the countless hours that team leaders, department heads, and vice presidents devote to supervising the... — read more 

Am I the only one who is cautiously optimistic?

Just want to make IBMers aware, if you transfer to a job at Red Hat you will likely have to formally exit IBM and become a new Red Hat employee. If you are under age 55, this can mean losing any IBM seniority, future health care account funds and... — read more 

Read up... Separated employees will receive 14 weeks of pay, and one more week for each year served at the company (rounding partial years up). The firm is also dropping its one-year equity cliff so that employees who are laid off with under 12... — read more 

The pandemic will “dramatically accelerate” the adoption of hybrid-cloud and AI, Mr. Krishna said, as companies turn to cloud services to help their employees work and serve customers remotely, as well as to AI to automate certain types of... — read more 

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