IBM plans to cut over 110,000 jobs
Forbes correspondent Robert Krinzhli (Robert X. Cringely), without reference to a confirmed source within the company, reports that this week one of the largest cuts in the IT industry in the last few years could pass at International Business Machines.
According to rumors , more than 25% of staff may receive calls from their managers with bad news. Of the total IBM staff of 430,000, more than 111,800 people can be laid off.
Prior to this, the largest reduction in IBM was made in 1993, when the company refused to continue working with 60,000 of its own employees, during which optimization the company became “service”.
The current reorganization is codenamed “Project Chrome” and as a result, IBM hopes to abandon the traditional iron-based mainframe business to fully concentrate on information services, cloud computing and artificial intelligence and data processing technologies.
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Last year, IBM's revenues amounted to $ 90 billion, which put the company on par with other high-margin IT giants. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why some commentators in the English-language media doubt that the company will indeed allow itself to make such a large-scale reduction of staff.
UPDATE: TechCrunch reports that by comparing data from several of its own sources, it came to the conclusion that the figure is overestimated 10 times - IBM does plan to reduce, but from 10,000 to 12,000 employees, during 2015-2016.
According to rumors , more than 25% of staff may receive calls from their managers with bad news. Of the total IBM staff of 430,000, more than 111,800 people can be laid off.
Prior to this, the largest reduction in IBM was made in 1993, when the company refused to continue working with 60,000 of its own employees, during which optimization the company became “service”.
The current reorganization is codenamed “Project Chrome” and as a result, IBM hopes to abandon the traditional iron-based mainframe business to fully concentrate on information services, cloud computing and artificial intelligence and data processing technologies.
')
Last year, IBM's revenues amounted to $ 90 billion, which put the company on par with other high-margin IT giants. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why some commentators in the English-language media doubt that the company will indeed allow itself to make such a large-scale reduction of staff.
UPDATE: TechCrunch reports that by comparing data from several of its own sources, it came to the conclusion that the figure is overestimated 10 times - IBM does plan to reduce, but from 10,000 to 12,000 employees, during 2015-2016.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/283810/
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