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发帖数: 5443 | 1 IBM is expected to go through a massive reorg next month that will
reportedly see 26% of its 430,000-strong work force let go, or 111,800
people. If that figure holds true, that would make it far and away the
largest corporate layoff event in history, breaking the record previously
held by IBM, when it cut 60,000 in 1993.
The report comes from long-time Silicon Valley journalist Robert X. Cringely
, who recently published an eBook on IBM's issues entitled The Decline and
Fall of IBM. He blamed past CEOs Louis Gerstner and Sam Palmisano for making
the mess and current CEO Virginia Rometty has done nothing to address them.
The problem is a complex mess of bad management – like laying off important
people in the middle of a project – to getting sidetracked with pie-in-the
-sky ideas like commercializing Watson and failing to adjust to the new era.
The "M" in IBM may mean machines, but hardware is less than 10% of its
business. Two-thirds is in services, and the services pipeline has dried up.
Why? Well, according to an ex-IBMer I spoke to some time ago, who confirmed
what Cringely wrote in his book, IBM is still wedded to services contracts
in an age where companies are shutting down their internal data center
entirely and moving everything to the cloud. If you don't have a data center
, you don't need an IBM service contract to manage it.
That's why IBM grabbed Softlayer, the cloud services provider. It needed to
get into the cloud fast because it was behind Microsoft, Google and Amazon.
Since the purchase 18 months ago, IBM has put a huge amount of money into
SoftLayer and there has been a number of announcements around SoftLayer
services.
Cringely said the mainframe and storage areas will see deep cuts, which is
pretty stupid considering IBM announced the new Z13 mainframe and hopes it
will stimulate sales. That won't be easy when you cut the people who are
supposed to sell it. Cutting storage is also foolish, as we are in the era
of Big Data and Data Lakes and storage is vital to these concepts.
And you have to wonder what a layoff of 110,000 people will do to the firm.
That has to be jarring. I remember an old advertisement from the print days
that said "What's worse, getting laid off on a Friday or being told to pick
up the slack on the following Monday?" This will be undeniably upsetting to
the survivors, who will likely spend time updating their LinkedIn profiles.
The question I have to ask is why isn't Rometty one of the 110k. IBM has
seen 11 straight quarters of declining revenue and it's hemorrhaging
customers, according to both my source and Cringely. It's becoming apparent
she is not up for the job and can't pull the company out of its nose dive.
Cringely said the layoffs will begin next week and by the end of February,
all of the employees will be gone. If nothing else, IBM's first quarter
numbers will take a monstrous hit from the severance packages for 111,000
employees. To say nothing of what this will do to its customer confidence. | m********8
发帖数: 7463 | 2 太狠了。他们家在237上面靠近垃圾厂的地方附近是不是还有个大楼？ | n******n
发帖数: 12088 | 3 牛逼呀。
【在 m********8 的大作中提到】
: 太狠了。他们家在237上面靠近垃圾厂的地方附近是不是还有个大楼？
| m********8
发帖数: 7463 | 4 此话怎讲？ 牛逼何在？
【在 n******n 的大作中提到】
: 牛逼呀。
| n******n
发帖数: 12088 | 5 人多。
【在 m********8 的大作中提到】
: 此话怎讲？ 牛逼何在？
| T******g
发帖数: 21328 | | c*********l
发帖数: 3438 | | P**********c
发帖数: 3417 | 8 这个太搞了。
that would make it far and away the
IBM真是会大换血啊。
Cringely
making
them.
important | r*******e
发帖数: 1461 | | g*********e
发帖数: 14401 | | b****g
发帖数: 7311 | 11 ibm印度已经砍5万人了
【在 c*********l 的大作中提到】
: 据说转到印度去
| r*******e
发帖数: 1461 | 12 外包印度
【在 b****g 的大作中提到】
: ibm印度已经砍5万人了
| f***e
发帖数: 5443 | 13 最新消息，IBM的员工或将在下个月面对该公司史上最大规模的裁员行动。如果没
有其他因素影响，IBM将在第一季度支付一笔巨额的遣送费。
有消息称，IBM将在下个月裁员幅度将达26%，约为11万人，其原因或与管理不善有
关。截至发稿时，IBM尚未对腾讯科技的询问作出回应。
可以看到的是，一方面，IBM臃肿的组织架构已经很难满足沃森所代表的新的商业
化时代所需要的动力，因此削减阻碍的中间部分。另一方面，IBM的硬件业务已经缩减
到了10%左右，而其占绝大部分营收的服务业务也处于衰减的趋势。
对于2015年2月可能的裁员，主要源于IBM已经连续数个季度收入下降和客户流失。
事实上，裁员的消息近年来一直影响着这个IT行业的“蓝色巨人”。
2013年第三季度的财报电话会议中，IBM前CFO Mark Loughridge表示，有三分之二
的硬件业务下滑是由于在发展中国市场表现不佳，而其中二分之一又主要受中国市场业
务下滑影响。于是，2014年中国区大裁员就顺理成章提上了议案。
最早的动作来自于联想对IBM X86 PC服务器业务的收购。该生产线工人因不满被转
移至联想，在2014年举行了长达2周的抗议。此时，已有一些在IBM工作超过10年甚至15
年的老员工离开。
不仅如此，IBM还在中国各个部门都制定了不同程度的裁员计划，其中包括三个在
华研发机构，甚至有个别地区的销售团队集体被裁员。
有前员工表示，IBM这几年其实一直在裁员，只不过中国作为业绩增长最好的市场
，躲过了之前的裁员。但是他没想过的是这样的裁员只是前奏，IBM在印度班加罗尔等
地的分支机构随后也同样受到波及。2014年2月26日，IBM宣布启动“阿波罗计划”，裁
员人数约为1.3万人，而其希望借此节省约10亿美元的开支。
然而，就在这项计划的结果尚未明朗时，更新一轮的大规模裁员或将再度公布。 |
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