IBM Layoffs Exceed 800, Workers Say – Services – Outsourcing – Informationweek

IBM has laid off more than 800 workers at locations across the U.S. in the past 24 hours, according to company sources and documents obtained by InformationWeek. Many of the cuts appear to target the company’s Global Technology Services outsourcing group.

Some 183 workers were laid off in the GTS application hosting unit, 179 were let go in GTS Delivery Distributed Server Management, and 128 employees lost their jobs in GTS Information Technology Services. In addition, 106 workers were laid off in IBM’s Systems & Technology Group, which manufactures servers and computer chips. The cuts also impacted smaller pockets of workers in various other units.

The numbers are derived from severance documents received by workers…

via IBM Layoffs Exceed 800, Workers Say – Services – Outsourcing – Informationweek.

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