"Selections are based primarily around performance and billable hours."
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Selections are based primarily around performance and billable hours.
IBM Chief Human Resources Officer Diane Gherson was quoted in an article as stating, “The Millennials are bringing skills that the people in the companies they’re joining don’t have. That is something pretty profound. These skills are very valuable and important to IBM and so we are finding we value early professionals in new ways—ways we previously wouldn’t have thought of.
Colossal blunders made by bureaucrats who cleverly evaded the culling.
A desperate coverup for being plumb out of ideas, and the gnawing anxiety of being found out.
Her successor is silent again.
I know of 2 IBM layoffs where a bunch of 20-somethings were hired and all on a project that never existed. There were about 15 that I knew of directly. I manage project budgets for capital and expense. Sitting in different meetings watching a bunch of people that have never been on a project and no real education trying to find a place to start. There were no business requirements, no project objectives, and these 20-somethings thought everything was glorious. I wasted 3 weeks of time in these random useless meetings. Then the RA happened. In total, there were about 100 of these people hired and fired. It was cheaper to hire a bunch of 20-somethings for 3 weeks, lay them off, and reduce the average layoff age from 55 to 42. They were all devastated and I even told the "Exec Project Manager" what she was hired for. She had no project manager experience. She was an Executive Project Manager and her salary was $36k. She had no clue what a project charter was or anything about managing a project. But hey, in 2008 or 2009 they were able to get the average age lower for no real money.
Got anything relevant to THIS layoff? I know a handful of people who are under 50 who got the axe.