Thread regarding IBM layoffs

@4cft – should be "lose", not "loose".

@2zbx Yeah and I suppose the thread topic spelling itself made you loose your mind too.

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You must IBM HR... taking a break from the RAs?

IBM mangers are the best at mis-managing any business . They haven't got a clue and are holding on for a pay check and benefits. Start cutting their ranks , bloated at every level .

@1gme - "body shop gig’s" and "it’s strategic plays". Good grief, these should be "body shop gigs" and "its strategic plays". This is something that annoys me, the inability of supposedly smart tech people to absorb simple rules of grammar and punctuation. The applicable rules are: If the word is a plural ("gigs"), omit the apostrophe. If the word is a contraction of "it is", include the apostrophe, otherwise omit the apostrophe and go with "its". Yes, I can gather your meaning nonetheless, but the ignorance/inattention shown by elementary punctuation errors makes me think I can't rely on your argument or conclusion, either. Sorry to pick on you – just unbelievable how often smart tech people make these basic punctuation errors and, worse, refuse to learn.

I agree with you that IBM will sacrifice some revenue, BUT it’s revenue without profit. There are just some services business that IBM shouldn’t be in Help desk, claims processing, NY unemployment telephone answering, etc etc These are very low margin, body shop gig’s that provide zero value to IBM and it’s strategic plays. Just partner with a body shop if you want to engage in these type of offerings (yeah we can do that type of play) and move on. My guess is that reduces IBM’s head count by 50k worldwide

Climate Change is happening at IBM and it isn't good . Lots of green house gas at the highest levels if you catch my drift .

If IBM pulls the plug on the lower margin businesses, they will quickly become a much smaller and much less relevant company.

This is something I feel that beancounters will never grok. If IBM were selling a system of razors and blades, they would stop selling low-margin razors and then wonder why sales of high-margin blades was tanking after the customers' supplies of razors ran out.

IBM is mainly valued to its' clients as a one-stop shopping IT store for hardware, software and services. If IBM pulls the plug on the lower margin businesses, they will quickly become a much smaller and much less relevant company. The IBM the world knows will cease to exist. Better to keep everything intact and try and add AI and Cloud as a higher growth area. IBM will never catch Amazon or Azure on Cloud infrastructure market share but they can be considered a valued partner to their huge customer base if they continue to be a more full service shop for IT solutions. If AK pulls the plug on the legacy solutions, IBM will risk slowly shrinking and eventually dying.

IBM will never change... it only looks at making to the next quarter... no long term vision and no employee respect!

This is the death by a 1000 cuts You want to demoralize a work force? Well this is the template. IBM is streamlining via this process (every 10k = approx a billion), but it doesn’t encompass what needs to be done (restructuring) Until AK puts on his big boy pants and makes a restructuring decision (sell off low profit legacy) nothing will fundamentally change. YES this process favors IBM’s strategic initiatives (CLOUD/AI/Redhat/Enterprise) due to its pinpoint nature, but overall it’s same ole same ole You tell me how PIP’s fundamentally change IBM’s go to market strategy? It’s just nipping around the edges hoping the business climate changes