Thread regarding IBM layoffs

Sent everyone regardless of job back into the office at least part-time for no good reason except to copy other companies and because he thinks there is some special sauce when people sit all day next to each other and barely talk about work for 30 minutes (If that) in a day. His backwards mentality compared to the CIO is mind boggling.

@9mdn nothing would have been nice! Unfortunately AK has done a lot...of damage to IBM don't you think...?

Nothing!

I heard he is looking for a Chalet in Davos... Ginni is advising him...

He successfully abandoned retirees with conditions meriting keeping original Medicare and freezing millions in dormant hra accounts. Ignored certified letters and left many without planned reimbursements. Continuing the beatings is his best strength

Arvind doesn't know s*** about anything

@2kcu Arvind talking about "AI replacing people" is the same hype Ginny used. Ginny gave presentations at a workforce professional conference saying Watson can replace many people's functions in HR and reduce headcount....

Arvind saying exactly the same hype only Watson isn't used anymore being a failure.... He now talks about "AI" ... Yeah right except it won't be made by IBM so... IBM itself will be replaced!

Astonishing to see such CEO messages... I guess same writers for Ginny are writing for Arvind obviously he's no qualifications technically to understand AI.... He's fed hype by the Comm department whom knows nothing basically... Just marketing buzz.

Sad to see JW skipped and Arvind made CEO.... Inbreeding at IBM results in re--rded offsprings unfortunately...

He was at the helm of R&D for almost 25 years and everything that came out of there was a failure Any marginal success IBM has ever had was acquired and even in those few cases it was eventually destroyed because of mismanagement Lately he has voiced that AI could replace many people In my opinion he should the first

He is putting another nail in the coffin…

I guess maybe contributed with BS engineering and covert ageism policies, completely accepted by the corrupt d i s g u s t i n g "union" here, towards the staff that does the work that funds his salary.
/ageism victim

You have to ask? Under AK, IBM has become the leader in virtue signal messaging as related to social issues. He has been out front in voicing his collective stance (under the guise of "we as IBM, condemn xxxxx.....") against the ills of modern day society. Tyre Nichols and other tragic people get IBM's immediate support and virtue signal response thanks to AK. Otherwise, a lot of money being spent on TV commercials - that's about it.

JW = Jim Whitehurst

Jim Whitehurst CEO of Redhat before IBM bought them. Also IBM president after IBM bought them

@1ody, who is JW? JW = Jim Whitehurst

Jim was the former Red Hat President and CEO.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiwhitehurst

Who is JW?

Lay-off is IBM's the most successful business.
Thanks Ginni & AK.

@1nuo perhaps JW wasn't one of the IBM's guys.. other executives were worried he'll trim them.. may many executives have contacts aka playing golf - with board members and bad-mouthed jW... Very strange indeed.. it's known inbreeding results in defected offsprings... At such a time choosing AK is unbelievable when IBM's desperate for innovations...

I guess Vela and other such research projects are the results of AK "leading" research ..

@1nuo indeed very strange how AK was nominated for CEO... especially if his past is non existing...

He was "credited" for the big vision to buy Redhat for an astonishing $34B .. and what's the results of that after AK was "leading" IBM cloud - Softlayer..?

Or is he given 10 years like Ginny got to "have a chance" to turn IBM around ..

Me not feeling it's working too well other than cutting everything. That'd not innovations that matter...

Board is a rubber stamp I guess...

@1xoz diversity to include Indians? Ginny was women's diversity and how was that doing like Fiorina for HP..?
If the Board appoints a CEO so superficially aren't they liable personally too...?

It was your classic diversity affirmative action ceo hire. Makes ibm look so diverse. ::pu-e::

When they first announced AK would succeed GR, everyone rushed to Google his name because no one had ever heard of the guy. Nothing came up. Don't believe me? Paste his Wikipedia url and his LinkedIn url into the Wayback Machine (archive.org) and you'll see neither existed before 2020. Marketing had to scramble to create a bio and get it out there. Even now his bio doesn't have much apart from "PhD in 1991, joined IBM in 1990, became General Manager of data software in 2009 and SVP of Research in 2015, later also Cloud and Cognitive, then CEO in 2020". Contrast that with the bio of any other F500 CEO. Everyone expected JW would be announced as the next CEO and then surprise! I'm sure there's a backstory, but I'm just a paeon and don't know it.