> We're told US-based network engineering staff will be reduced to two or three employees per shift during US business hours, representing a 33 percent loss of

> We're told US-based network engineering staff will be reduced to two or three employees per shift during US business hours, representing a 33 percent loss of staff per shift. That's monitoring and maintaining all of IBM’s global datacenters. What's in this sense of "network engineering"? (Is it distinct from some role like "technician" or "operations"?) If you wanted to make IBM's data centers quickly start having downtime, or to be unresponsive to new needs, how many people would you have to hire away?