Consulting, a division that has struggled in recent quarters, will grow ahead of the market, Kavanaugh said. “The consulting market is going through a transition with the technological shift of GenAI.” All in Consulting should be... — read more 

AK whining that the big boys won't let IBM play because they own the sandbox. https://fortune.com/2025/02/04/ibm-ceo-ai-deepseek-technology/ By: Arvind Krishna Arvind Krishna is the chairman and CEO of IBM. February 4, 2025 at 4:36 AM CST Last... — read more 

McNair told council members Monday that IBM never actually used the building and that it sat vacant. Total... — read more 

IBM is a horrible company that has been discriminating against workers over 40 for a long time. A disgusting company.

numbers release hours ago: https://finbox.com/NYSE:IBM/explorer/total_debt/

Anyone with a shred of intelligence or with coding skill should stay away from the piece of tu-d company! Dont even give business to them, just stay away! They have groupthink mentality and can't even innovate anyway! Just focus on your mainframe... — read more 

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/ibm_q4_2024/

IBM’s CEO confirmed that IBM will continue to transform to a SW enterprise company. IBM also confirmed that 2025 layoffs will be similar to 2024

AK at a WEF panel. What he is really saying: let us develop AI unimpeded so that we can RA as many high-cost, inefficient humans as possible as soon as possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0gckuGCctA AK: @13:01 - 17:06, @24:05 - 27:15... — read more 

It's not a matter of which orgs, it's when. It's rolling thunder and all orgs at IBM will soon be affected with this co-location mandate. Best to prepare to either move or be laid off. Whichever hits first, or worse, you move then you are laid off... — read more 

After being at IBM for almost 2 decades for the first time I am hearing of executive RAs in Software after the Dinesh announced reorg. Both VPs and Directors are falling under the RA hatchet. There are still way more SVPs and VPs that should... — read more 

Do u agree?

Hearing HR scrambling to increase the quota's for needs growth and PIP's to be able to let people go. Are the Cloud numbers next week really that bad? Get rid of as many people as possible?

Google News is bumping up this article today, treating it as new: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/why-ibm-is-paying-2-7-billion-to-this-us-based-insurance-company/articleshow/113293274.cms

Anyone has any idea?

I heard talk that there will be a 25% reduction in Finance roles. Anyone else hear the same?

Will the Trump administration do anything to stop companies like IBM from moving US jobs to India?

Yes , "New Year, New Career" was the subject of the email after I laid off by IBM but the craziness doesn't stop there. They still continue to send ridiculous unwanted emails to my personal email like the one below : "2024 was a year of many... — read more 

Is Alvind going to pull the trigger first ? can he provide a firm date the first targets ? Is IBM going to abandon DEI and ESG in 2025 since Agent Orange arrives next week ?... — read more 

Geeee, wonder how AK will decide to offset these massive new hires in India??? https://www.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1hzlkvi/ibm_hiring_insanely_in_india/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chriswestfall/2025/01/10/us-job-growth-excels-but-these-companies-are-announcing-layoffs/ The headline is loaded (and a lie basically)

Any rumours about Feb 6 IBM Canada Layoffs?

https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/employment-pip-jobs/2025/01/07/id/1194224/

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article298237723.html One of the top recipients of H-1B visas in North Carolina is IBM. In an email last year, the company said it had been “scaling back” its use of the program. But Big Blue remains a top... — read more 

After Narayana Murthy’s 70-hour work week, L&T Chief pushes for 90-hour weeks; faces... — read more 

Published 5 hours ago: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/morning-brief-podcast/morning-brief-podcast-corner-office-conversation-with-sandip-pate-md-ibm-india-and-south-asia/podcast/117101844.cms "As global tech layoffs make headlines, IBM... — read more 

The ax just came down to what few people remain WFH due to closed offices to have to go into the office 3 days a week. I'm off to get my resume in order and start applying. They are literally shooting themselves in the foot with some financial... — read more 

Maybe at his next Office Hours someone can ask AK why IBM is still partnering with Inspur when the U.S. DoD has them on the current list of Chinese Military Companies? He shuts down the Research and Systems labs last year but this partnership... — read more 

Group Christmas party was the norm at IBM when I worked there. People would bring in food and management covered the main course. Does this still occur?

https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3293292/chinese-state-owned-ai-firm-hires-former-ibm-executive-chief-technology-officer "AI" is just a buzzword that means anything now, in this case spying on tenants

https://www.ceoinsightsasia.com/news/stateowned-ai-firm-bedi-appoints-former-ibm-executive-xie-dong-as-cto-nwid-13146.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/endicott-issues-statement-ibm-lawsuit-220617595.html

An apt metaphor for the company itself: condemned for 20 years and now finally being demolished. https://www.binghamtonhomepage.com/broome-county/demolition-of-ibm-building-begins/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/which-companies-have-the-most-employees-on-h-1b-visas/ar-AA1wM59i?ocid=msedgntp&pc=W099&cvid=5d8b8a977bce40fbb896630432a823d1&ei=25 Below is the list : Amazon. The e-commerce company had the most... — read more 

Is IBM management still checking the badge readers for reports on who is coming into the office ? Employees are smart enough to come in one door with a badge reader and exit out of another door which doesn't have a badge reader. LOL ! Seen a few... — read more 

What a great way for AK to usher in the New Year! https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibms-planned-6-4-billion-hashicorp-takeover-faces-u-k-antitrust-scrutiny-a05f4200 The initial review comes as the cloud sector is under increased scrutiny from... — read more 

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/american-man-reveals-indian-ceo-took-over-a-firm-booted-out-founders-hired-indians-post-goes-viral-amid-h1b-visa-debate/articleshow/116730663.cms?from=mdr

I mean, there’s not much left to do except more layoffs.

https://drucker.institute/rankings-2024/ IBM at #20 for 2024. They were #5 in 2023: https://drucker.institute/rankings-2023/ So a drop of 15 places in one year. Heck of a job, AK, heck of a job.

I was at the top of my game. Had a great aIT job with great pay and I got laid off 6 years ago. Depression and sickness followed by more depression is how I spent the past six years. What can I do now? Six years is eternity when you have been out... — read more