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IBM will erase 100,000 workers - man with one name
Services staff to vanishBy Ashlee Vance in Mountain View → More by this author
Published Saturday 5th May 2007 00:29 GMT
IBM could layoff - get out your really, really big box of tissues - more than 100,000 workers, according to some guy at PBS.
A PBS writer calling himself Cringely claims that IBM's hush-hush 1,300 person layoffthis week could be the start of a not so quiet mass cleaving. Under aproject dubbed LEAN, IBM will allegedly gut at least 100,000 peoplefrom its Global Services division. Such a workforce reduction wouldleave IBM with close to 250,00 staff and a much quieter servicesoperation.
"LEAN began last week with a 10-city planning meeting for GlobalServices, which wasn't, by the way, to decide who gets the boot: thosedecisions were apparently made weeks ago, though senior managers havebeen under orders to keep the news from their affected employees," theCringely person writes.
"LEAN is about offshoring and outsourcing at a rate never seenbefore at IBM. For two years Big Blue has been ramping up itsoperations in India and China with what I have been told is theultimate goal of laying off at least one American worker for everyoverseas hire. The BIG PLAN is to continue until at least half ofGlobal Services, or about 150,000 workers, have been cut from the U.S.division. Last week's LEAN meetings were quite specifically to find andidentify common and repetitive work now being done that could beautomated or moved offshore, and to find work Global Services is doingthat it should not be doing at all. This latter part is with the ideathat once extraneous work is eliminated, it will be easier to move therest offshore.
"All this is supposed to happen by the end of 2007, by the way, at which point IBM will also freeze its U.S. pension plan."
True enough, IBM's services margins fail to impress. Big Blue's own seem ready to admit that.
But laying off close to one-third of the workforce? Er, easy on the meds, Cringely.
Even cynical types such as your reporter have trouble believing thatIBM would be prepared to stomach this kind of massacre. IBM would haveto hire the services arm of HP just to deal with processing all of thepink slips by the end of the year.
That said, we're willing to be convinced if you have the documentation.
Cringely's piece sits here. Approach with caution. ®
偶印象里Register一向比较靠谱啊,比inq好很多的
这个也太...
[ 本帖最后由 elisha 于 2007-5-5 21:52 编辑 ] |
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