In the past, I used to rely on Sametime and the unofficial Sametime Cleaner plugin to check on whether people outside of those I routinely interact with had left the company. Does anybody have an alternative way of doing?
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Bluepages will be updated to remove the person within about 24 hours of the end of employment, which it sounds like for most will be in 30 days (or whatever the required state minimum is, depending on the number laid off at a US site). Connections can also be used, their profile picture will disappear so it becomes pretty clear pretty quickly there. But as far as I know, there is know easy list thing for "who's gone" on Sametime or your Notes/Outlook address lists. Of course Sametime itself was essentially the subject of an action, it is essentially no longer around at IBM. I think IBM turned off or limited various APIs for Bluepage data, to prevent scan sorts of things. I always saw that as unfortunate, an easy way to keep your distribution lists and so forth current, people do retire and leave the company even in the best of times, and there is a cost to the time spent chasing down new addresses or not having known far enough ahead to shift work and so forth. But it is IBM's call, in the end, same with taking away external Bluepage equivalents (which makes it harder for clients to reach IBMers, so there is a cost), they must figure the benefit is worth it. I was never sure it is a wise approach, but unless US labor laws change some, not clear to me it will change. My sympathies here are both with IBM and in particular the impacted employees.
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Bluepages will be updated the day they are gone.
Ex-IBMer here. I used to have an org chart tool that crawled Bluepages and I could save a list and compare it with a new one that I ran after the purge. Not sure if that is doable anymore (it's been a few years).
And even Blue Pages isn't updated right away. Not sure how one can tell except to get bounced emails from your friends and co-workers.
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Most have 30 day notice period, until after their last work day, there won’t be any indication from tools like Bluepages.
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