IBM is reportedly planning its largest CORPORATE layoff ever – cutting 111,800 of its staff.
A report by a respected Silicon Valley journalist for Forbes said around 26% of the COMPANY’S 430,000-strong workforce would be cut this week.
The previous largest CORPORATE redundancy was also carried out by IBM, when it cut 60,000 staff in 1993.
The COMPANY’S reorganisation is codenamed Project Chrome, and most of the staff being laid off are in the US.
It will pave the way for IBM to focus on cloud computing, it is claimed, rather than its traditional hardware business.
Reporter Robert X Cringely wrote: “To fix its business problems and speed up its ‘transformation’, next week about 26% of IBM’s employees will be getting phone calls from their MANAGERS… see more
source: skynews
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