Thread regarding IBM layoffs

IBMers Aren't Buying What IBM Is Selling

Fear of unemployment (layoffs) and social-media, performance-based appraisals may mute IBM's employees, but they are speaking loud and clear in other ways: in their productivity and with their wallets.

Maybe the Drucker Institute and the Wall Street Journal will one day look deeper into IBM's real problems because they will finally acknowledge some dire corporate symptoms: a three-decade decline in employee stock purchase plan participation and a two-decade decline in employee revenue and profit productivity.

https://www.discerningreaders.com/ibm-employee-stock-purchase-plan-espp.html

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Maybe the board should eliminate cash bonuses and pay them in stock that vests over 2-5 years

Stock options, not stock. Stock is still worth something if the price goes down. Options are not. Give them a real incentive to get the stock price up.

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And the customers aren’t buying what they’re selling.

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Maybe the board should eliminate cash bonuses and pay them in stock that vests over 2-5 years

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Post ID: @ray+1ez5CTn2

When I hired on in July 1968 right out of college, I chased a single share of IBM stock right into December (even with the 15% discount). Today I could buy it with pocket change, but why would I want to?

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