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Re:Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem by jurassic on Sunday January 25, 2015 @07:32PM (#8944909)
Where are you getting the $1B savings number?
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Re:Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem by jmiwhite on Sunday January 25, 2015 @07:35PM (#8944916)
$10000*100000 employeees - I had to think about it too.
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Re:Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem by bhouston on Sunday January 25, 2015 @07:50PM (#8944978)
Who makes 10k a year?
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Re:Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem by barrkel on Sunday January 25, 2015 @07:58PM (#8944994)
1 billion saved per 10k of salary. You need to read the parent in context of its parents.
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Re:Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem by davidcgl on Sunday January 25, 2015 @08:39PM (#8945136)
> Who makes 10k a year?

A lot of employees in developing countries in which IBM has a presence.

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Re:Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem by kazinator on Sunday January 25, 2015 @10:58PM (#8945471)
A better question is, who doesn't make at least 10K per year? Are there many?

If not, then the billion figure represents a reasonable lower bound estimate on the savings.

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Re:Next Week's Bloodbath At IBM Won't Fix The Real Problem by UberMouse on Sunday January 25, 2015 @07:58PM (#8944998)
>for each $10000 of employee salary

So a billion saved per 10k of average employee salary, just way of quantifying it in something understandable.

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