February is almost half over and lots we’re talking about a February layoff but I don’t hear any talk at work about it anymore. This is for usa
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no more lay-off in February as it it March now. I promise
Started last week already in the Netherlands.
@f7 thanks for reminding us of what the company has already said about layoffs:
During the 4Q Earnings call on January 28, 2026, the company indicated there would be layoffs in 2026 at levels similar to 2025. The words they used were:
“For operating pretax margin, we expect about 100 basis points of expansion with workforce rebalancing fairly consistent with the prior year.”
FYI: “Workforce rebalancing charges” is code for restructuring costs tied to headcount actions: severance, role eliminations, org redesign etc.
@1hw it feels like IBM always got rid of a lot of people with PIPS in addition to RAs
@1gj not really true. With a layoff or what IBM calls RA resource action there is usually up to 3 mos severance. IBM has hundreds (perhaps thousands) of people on PIPs performance improvement plans that have become today's layoff since they are silent, do not need to be reported, gets the job done and in most cases has the person tell IBM to take a hike and quit since the PIP in most cases is a joke to complete to get off the naughty list. I know of 1 case where a person was given a 10 item PIP and they worked hard and got them all done. The mgr came back and said NOPE you are done for not doing a mock Powerpoint sales pitch to his mgr by a certain date after the person tried to set the mtg up with the mgr 6 times. SMH.
Almost the end of February and still no layoffs! Isn’t that strange?
@195
IBM does not move fast as a company. If you have ever worked there, now or before, you would know that.
I know that discussing critical race theory, which is just acknowledging American history and FACTs, is difficult for you. I bet many of you can tell me about World War II (maybe some of you even yearn for a different outcome, given your comments in this thread).
But to acknowledge American history and slavery, wow, that's so difficult. LOL
@195
You work? LOL. The country who imported slaves, works? Lol. And now you're shocked that IBM is sending work overseas for cheaper labor? Lol.
From what I saw on my non-technical team, the white leads and managers just led meetings and did presentations about other people's work and pushed around paper.
They would hoard work to say "Hey I am important, don't lay me off, you need me", then they would release the work last minute to someone else because they couldn't actually do the work. They "managed" the work, you see? They're soooo important. No one else can make slide decks and make notes in Box, you see? And if you did most of the work, hey you did the work under them, so why wouldn't they take the credit for your work? No one can be as smart as them, that's why you need to do the actual work and they'll take the credit it for it.
Oh yeah, you're right. You "work" lol
@194 yes comrade. If you actually "WORK" for IBM don't you have to create a watsonx subroutine, or sell a z system or do some great billable customer work instead of dumping critical race theory here and dividing people by skin color and telling us white men and women at IBM are against you? SMH.
Correction: That's why you don't have universal healthcare, but you do have terrible social safety nets and abusive workplace protections. That's why you're worried about RAs.
Hmm, the last bastion of bigots -- mix-matching similar words from different contexts to get a "gotcha". Applying color theory to race theory.
You're being a bigot to people in protected classes, which historically marginalized communities of color.
Here's the catch: the likely reason why America is so sh--e is because you bigots never resolved the race issue, your history of slavery, properly.
That's why you have don't universal healthcare, terrible social safety nets, and abusive workplace protections.
Because some WHITE racist at the top of line somewhere said, "I don't want to give this to black people, so let's save money and not give it to most white people, too."
The hilarious thing is that as you cling to "America is great", you're also clinging to the very system that makes you shake in your boots right now, worried that you'll be laid off and left with NO social net.
They're making billions hand over fist. And they are laughing at you as you blame people of color and DEI.
" You live in the greatest country in the world. You know where the door is if you do not love America. I have a dream."
LOL sounds like IBM is telling you the same, mate, with all the RAs. Yet here you are, whining and whining that white men over 40 are the only victims.
@18n
I have been, but I won't let an id--tic bigot slyly suggest that people of color/DEI are the problem for RAs and not corporate greed.
@18e let’s stay on topic and not talk about things that divide us.
You honestly need help. You're obsessed with race but not examining your own racial privilege. Because you want to keep benefiting from white privilege.
You're just mad because life used to be easy for you, and now it isn't. And it has nothing to do with people of color. It's corporate life, capitalism, and the economy you supported until you realized that it's only about the money.
Why would a corporation keep you if you're expensive, and they can find newly skilled labor for cheap? That's the question you should confront.
What are you talking about? The commenter I was replying to was saying that a "woman of a protected race" was doing nothing but she wasn't going to get fired. They brought up race first.
I replied and said that there are plenty of "unprotected class" people, such as white men and white women (but not all, I only said the ones that I worked with), who gave their reports late assignments even though engineering created those work requests very early in the cycle.
White men and women still benefit from a great amount of privilege in corporate. Just because other races have different privileges because of RACISM and BIGOTRY, it doesn't mean that races other than white are the issue. It doesn't mean that ALL white people are the issue. It's corporate. It's an unfair for everyone, and people survive how they need.
I had a white woman manager whose job was going from meeting to meeting, sharing what she had learned in the other meeting. She's been doing that FOR DECADEs, from what I can see. How is that a job? How is that different from the woman "of a protected class" who does the same? LOL.
@18a "I have a dream" and you are not in it. You should read the part about content of their character and not color of skin. You complained about white men and women. SMH.
@185
If you had actually read the comment I was referring to, you would have realized that the other commenter raised the issue of race first.
And if you had actually read my comment, specifically the last paragraph, and understood English (the only language people with no culture like you know), you would realize that I was actually calling out people who play the race card.
"Comrade".
@182 stop playing the race, oppressed card comrade. You know where the door is if you think the grass is greener someplace else. Everyone knows IBM has and will jettison white men over 40. Facts and 4 decades of RAs back that up as fact and not opinion.
I used to work with a group of white women and white men who belittled you while they took credit for your work, gave you assignments a week or a month before the release date (even though engineering created the work requests MONTHS before), and then got very defensive if you suggested that they improve their work habits. Management always sided with these people, and that's why IBM will continue to be a mediocre tech company. People don't want to admit that they need to change or adapt, and they want to continue being their mediocre selves to hold onto power.
I don't think it's about race, but of course, people do use their race to their advantage. If you think that your race hasn't helped you in the corporate world, you're either delusional or a liar.
@10v yes, usually twice a year it makes the newspapers and we have large scale US layoffs but they very rarely need to file WARN notice since they do relatively small percentages but relatively often
@OP I don't really see anywhere that there are mass layoffs. Also I don't see anything on the WARN. People are let go silently..maybe?
@i06: there is the voluntary retirement (a forced lay off in disguise) for the hundreds who accepted to "retire" by the end of March 2026. The recalcitrant one were forced out at the end of last year.
@102 at least until march? Lol
what the fudge? I don't see any news about the layoffs. Does it mean we are safe for now??
IBM is synonymous with layoff
@kh, the layoff in November 2024 was not a surprise to many. The Indian id1ot at the top and his cabal need more cuts than the 15/70/15 performance scheme and cook the books to stay in the grace of Wall Street. The AI and Quantum Computing charade does not fool anybody.
@j4 Except when they snuck in that bonus RA last November. I bet they enjoyed taking everyone by surprise.
"Back in the day" (when I was still an employee), dismissals took place quarterly. January, April, July, October...over and over again.
That woman is in a protected class. Hint skin color
@Hq. IBM’s job 1 = lower costs no matter what how it impacts the company. So I believe your band 10 was most likely why the computer picked you. (You are expensive vs a new hire (especially if the new hire was in India))
Top performing band 10 and got RA'd went to the office and actually worked on location 3 days a week. I am a white male
Meanwhile people who go to the office once a month and are on teams meeting all day did not get RA'd.
Guess the reason
Thanks for sending me the location of the device in NYC. Will be "out of town" for a few days.
@f7 and triple hiring of new college grads in USA while shipping jobs to India still
On the 4Q Earnings call on January 28, 2026, the company indicated there would be layoffs in at levels similar to 2025. The words they used were:
“For operating pretax margin, we expect about 100 basis points of expansion with workforce rebalancing fairly consistent with the prior year.”
FYI: “Workforce rebalancing charges” is code for restructuring costs tied to headcount actions: severance, role eliminations, org redesign etc.
Ain't nobody left to RA. Everyone's been replaced by AI 'cept for Arlind, Krabanaugh, and that co-k su-ka RT.
@OP May the almighty continue to bless you with peace, good health, and barakah in everything you do.
They layoff train never stops. It just offloads at different times. All aboard! For the layoff express. Fasten your seat belt. It will be the same bumpy ride as it has always been.
Some brothers were talking about this after prayers today. God willing, we will be okay.
With persecution from all sides, it’s easy to feel despair.
C'mon man! IBM has layoffs every day of every week of every month of every year going back to April Fools Day 4-1-93 when the G Man Gerstner came in. Line up a new jon and get out of there with your mind and body right while you still can!