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The article says IBM has laid of 5,000 and has hired 7,000 - sounds to me like typical IBM shenanigans to replace expensive employees with cheap ones.

When I was there the gimmick was that you either relocated to a third world country and took a local wage, or you resigned.

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Exactly.

As good a time as any to fold RH into the regularly-scheduled “Resource Action” cadence and deflect upset onto general economic factors.

No matter the sense of autonomy given by IBM, acquired companies will inevitably be subject to the mighty “RA” (aka layoff) cycle.

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