Work in IBM Global Services? Afraid for your job?
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Robert X. Cringely, a noted technology columnist who writes “I, Cringely” for PBS.org, has written a weekly column that might be sending chills through IBM ranks. He said his sources are telling him that Armonk-based IBM Corp. will fire 100,000 or more Global Services staffers this year in the United States in a project called “LEAN.” Last week’s layoffs, which affected 15 people in Westchester County, and totaled about 1,300, according to the Communications Workers of America, are only the beginning, Cringely writes.
Cringely writes: “For two years Big Blue has been ramping up its operations in India and China with what I have been told is the ultimate goal of laying off at least one American worker for every overseas hire.”
Cringely believes the layoffs will occur before the end of 2007 and are a direct effort to boost IBM’s stock price.
IBM declined to comment.
Analyst Bob Djurdjevic, president of Annex Research in Phoenix and a longtime IBM watcher and expert, told Networkworld that he thinks Cringely’s ideas are “hogwash.”
In the meantime, Cringely advises IBMers who work in Global Services to ask their managers directly if their jobs are targeted for elimination.
We’d also like to hear from any IBM employee who has information about project LEAN and whether Cringely is off base or on target. Write to Julie Moran Alterio at jalterio@lohud.com or call 914-694-5228.
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