IBM is poised to cut 8, jobs across its European operations next year, including up to 2, jobs in its UK and Ireland business, a source close to the matter has told CPI.
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We are the world's largest IT and consulting company. Great opportunities abound. Build your portfolio while working on society's most pressing issues. They're at the top of our strategic agenda. Through 38 separate plans, IBM has cut its worldwide workforce by 33, over the past five years, including 7, managers, down to a level of about , total staffers by early Now, IBM has announced plans to eliminate another 14, positions by the end of this year-mostly through new incentive-to-leave programs.
Downsizings have ceased to become news in today's market. But times have been particularly rocky for Big Blue recently. Its market share has been steadily dropping amid a general downturn in the computer industry. The corporation that has ruled the mainframe market since it introduced the System in the s, and which revolutionized the way we work when it introduced the PC micro a decade ago, has yet to offer workstations or laptops that set industry standards.
And as it fights for market share amid a crowd of wanna-be competitors, many observers have openly wondered if the company may be on the edge of pushing its full-employment tradition overboard.
Indeed, despite the loyalty, goodwill and year career tracks that IBM has carefully nurtured over the years year IBM veterans receive full benefits when they retire, no matter what their age at retirement , the company today is deliberately enticing many employees to quit. It is no secret that IBM has always had routine individual firings, referred to in corporate-speak as "management-initiated attrition," or MIA, a company spokesperson says.
But for the first time, IBM is taking on more aggressive measures to persuade employees into voluntary retirement or resignation in an effort to cut its payroll. Under the new plan announced last March, IBM managers can approach specific employees and openly suggest that they voluntarily resign or retire.
In the past, it was up to employees to decide whether or not to apply for the voluntary programs.
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