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Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late A... by mgaphysics on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @04:36PM (#6168983)
Maybe my glass is half-full, but furloughing everybody for one week may have prevented them from cutting a number of individual positions completely. The thing that I find interesting is the statement about efforts being made to return the business model to sustainability: "new product launches, investments, acquisitions, changes to its go-to-market, new client centers of competency for Linux and flash memory".

Did I miss something or is this a list of things on any viable business model. I would have liked to see them make "out of the box" moves, but alas, this is the IBM we all know and love.

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Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late A... by iends on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @07:17PM (#6169853)
IBM just have had a large series of layoffs. People have suggested IBM is trying to get more employees to quit.
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Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late A... by twistedpair on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @07:42PM (#6169946)
If you get them to leave, you don't have to pay severance. It's a typical maneuver to shake the tree before the culling.
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Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late A... by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @07:55PM (#6170001)
Not to mention Google has a better office in the city, and hires a lot of the high-end IBM talent fairly quickly as it becomes available.
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Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late A... by wmf on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @09:55PM (#6170374)
In what city? Poughkeepsie? Rochester MN? Austin?
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Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late A... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday August 07, 2013 @01:04AM (#6170962)
"The City"

As in, much of IBM's operations are still in the NYC area.

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Re:IBM To Furlough Most Of Its U.S. Hardware Staff In Late A... by chiph on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @11:17PM (#6170614)
They'll have another layoff ("Resource Action" in IBM-speak) later this year. No later than mid-December, so they don't have to pay the 401(k) match (if you leave before the end of the year, they take back their match for the whole year).
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