Will RA continue throughout the week?
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If you work for IBM, you need CIO (division and its people). If you need internal tools, company internal applications, IT support, service, etc... who are you going to call if not CIO. Nobody deserves the RA and have their division slashed in half.
If you mock RA'ed victims, someday you'll meet karma yourself. Karma is real!
CIO is the division that works on internal tools for IBM employees. They do not work on consumer products.
So will there be more RAs NEXT week too? Or are we done for a while? Also, aren't they still handing out lots of PIPs?
Two other points - work is being offshored to India who will now do what US folks did. 2nd is when those internal systems fail and no one knows how it fix, the data will STOP flowing to Sellers.. So to say CIO is not revenue generating I guess we’ll see.
I am apart of CIO. About a half of my US based colleagues ended up being fired this week. With 3 months of pay and one month to find a job inernally, and Cobra for a year. They did bring value to the company if you ask me. They were not critical for the new projects, just supported existing projects. The company did not try to refocus them. It was easier to just get rid of them. I saw it many times before. So the company can cope without them. It is like at Macys with one salesperson per floor. He doesnt have time toreally help you and not easy to find, the close is not aligned well, and you can not find anything, but he can check you out.
Marketing and sales are definitely related, but the CIO stands for "Chief Information Officer". In other words, the CIO and the related organization handles IBM's internal IT. It is definitely an important organization, but like the rest of IBM it is big and bloated. As IBM gets smaller, so does the CIO's office.
i think a lot of people here are confused as to what cio and marketing do. They create marketing opportunities for sales people! They bring in customers! Websites, promo materials, events, etc. Millions of dollar are directly attributable to marketing assists. Do you really think sales can exist without marketing?
@1rno+1rwIOwOV Distributing the workload to the remaining employees is without a doubt one of the objectives of this little exercise, just as it has always been so. The task for the management will be to reduce the workload and competently rebalance it among the remaining employees.
@1rbu+1rwIOwOV IBM is lucky to have such an amazing employee. You must be making the company billions. You may not like the work they did but a lot of them were hardworking people that were following directions from upper management. No one forced you to stay. I am sure an outstanding employee such as yourself must have companies breaking down your door. Lucky IBM to be able to retain such talent. I can't wait to see your press release a few months from now on just how useless these people were and how life is great for you now.
IBM is an internal customer...a cost center. They do not bring in green dollars. IBM needs green dollars, and the CIO organization costs green dollars. So off they go.
To the guy saying CIO "Wasn't anything to do with making products, selling products, or servicing customers.". The customer is IBM in this case. Without the critical internal applications, IBM as a company wouldn't function. The cuts went a bit too deep in my opinion because the workload for the people left over will increase drastically without any salary increase. All this does is boost the share price, and in turn executive compensation, once more. The rank and file are getting milked on the productivity side to the bone.
@1hid all that would be OK if the new mean and lean IBM actually meant bigger financial rewards for the remaining staff creating the results. But all these cuts will do is boost the 2024 FCF so the senior leaders like Arvind, Jim K, Gary Cohn can afford IBM's large debt load, pay for more acquisitions, and maybe raise the dividend another penny. The front line IBMer will just see a larger burden of work with fewer staff around to assist.
IBM has historically had a LOT of "internal" employees. These employees were not customer-facing like salespeople or consultants, and they weren't directly involved in product development or manufacturing. There were LOTS (and I do mean LOTS) of administrators and analysts, and there probably still are. The CIO is a prime example...damn, that organization had, and probably still has, gobs of people. All of them internal. None of them had anything to do with making products, selling products, or servicing customers.
The bottom line is that IBM is shrinking, and hopefully gaining focus. A lot of employees won't like it, but the fact is that in a shrinking company many of them are nothing but deadweight. IBM doesn't have the spare cash to pay them any longer.
Nope. Just glad we finally getting rid of people that are actually NOT billable, meaning they make sh-t for the company. Prior layoffs have always targeted the billable folks who actually have to work over time to pay for the useless people!!
@pnu When you look in the mirror do you see an @$$h0le with 2 eyes?
Mist of the people eliminated have jobs that are absolutely useless and only cost the company money… good riddance. Bye!
Agreed.
Yes, it will continue this week. CIO in Europe hit heavily as we speak. Approx. 80% of a certain team affected and will be gone at the beginning of April.