Posted on 04/02/2016 1:58:44 PM PDT by Lorianne
The IT group IBM apparently is planning massive job cuts in Germany. According to the trade union Verdi, the Group has informed on Wednesday about the planned reduction of nearly 1,000 jobs by March 2017th This was announced by Verdi in a newsletter. Primarily affects service segments. The group had invited the workers' representatives to negotiations for a social plan and balance of interests. In Hannover, a region should be shut down with about 200 employees, said a Verdi representatives. The Hanover stay but generally preserved.
"IBM has informed the participation and invited to negotiations," confirmed an IBM spokesman. A hiring freeze, it will not give: IBM will continue to hire employees with key skills. For years, the IT group struggling with a decline in sales. IBM is in a time-tag, to be replaced by new one when the old segments such as the sale of servers or infrastructure.
Nationwide 16,500 employees
Trade unionists feared already last year the job losses in the IT group in Germany. At that time there was talk of 2,500 jobs over the next two years. With the new announcement is not yet clear that it will not come to a further job cuts, said the Verdi representatives. Nationwide, the US group most recently employed about 16,500 employees. 2009 there were still 21,100 employees.
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Lotus Notes will always survive despite it being one of the worst software packages ever foisted on the world.
Ginni is sure ‘The Cloud’ will save IBM after she’s sold off everything and still lost money. The board still gave her a 6% raise and 19 million shares of stock after losing money for five or six quarters.
IBM is always laying off people, but it will never go away. This is because it outsources IT functions from other businesses, and the IT people go to IBM. Then a year or two later when the Indian IBM people have taken those potitions, the higher priced originals are canned.
Never met more arrogant pricks than the ones who worked for IBM in my town. If they’re getting screwed, I’m high-fivin’.
“Then a year or two later when the Indian IBM people have taken those potitions, the higher priced originals are canned.”
IBM does this too?
I would never work for IBM except as a contractor. They have screwed over too many of their own people over the years to be trusted.
“Nobody ever got fired recommending IBM”.
Eventually, though, the business discovers IBM is charging it high prices for low-quality people. IBM is paying them $60K and billing them to the customer at $200K.
The answer? Re-insource, or course. Consultants will be busy.
I call it Blotus Goats
That’s a great name.
Notes is like the Daleks in Dr. Who, no matter what it survives somewhere somehow.
““Then a year or two later when the Indian IBM people have taken those potitions, the higher priced originals are canned.”
IBM does this too?”
Happened with HP and their support groups.
Perhaps “Google translate” could hire some of those laid off to make their “translation” remotely comprehensible?
Lotus Notes is still around?
Every single Indian IT project I have ever run across needed a total rewrite.
It still hangs on where I am, mostly hosting some databases.
True but I would make sure I would get the money I wanted before ever working for them.
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