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Does IBM never do large firings?
by jsprogrammer 12y ago
Does IBM never do large firings?
- bigiain 12y agoThe article almost opens with a line about the previous biggest ever layoff in history of 60,000 people. In 1993. By IBM...
- jsprogrammer 12y agoLink has clickbait all over it. Hasn't hooked me yet. But more seriously, have there been any other large, but not "biggest ever" firings since 1993? Anyone have a chart?
- bigiain 12y agoI dunno - 60,000 people? I can't think of anything of that magnitude (not that I keep on top of that kind of stuff...)
- bigiain 12y agoClarification... The original link went to http://www.itworld.com/article/2875112/ibm-is-about-to-get-hit-with-a-massive-reorg-and-layoffs.html http://www.itworld.com/article/2875112/ibm-is-about-to-get-h... - it got changed (for good reasons) to the origoinal Cringely page (which _doesn't_ have the comparison to IBM's 1993 layoffs)
- TD-Linux 12y agoIn Rochester, MN, IBM has been doing several very large rounds of layoffs over the past 5 years. Nearly half the building is empty now and being rented to other companies.
- dingaling 12y agoRochester was the AS/400 facility wasn't it? Or iSeries in latter years.