Massive Worldwide Layoff Underway At IBM - IEEE Spectrum

Massive Worldwide Layoff Underway At IBM - IEEE Spectrum

By Tekla Perry Photo: Scott Eells/Bloomberg/Getty IBMers: Please share your experience with me directly at t.perry@ieee.org, on Twitter @teklaperry, or in the comments below. Keep yourself anonymous if you'd like, identify your job function and location if you're willing, but tell us your story, we want to hear it. Project Chrome, a massive layoff that IBM is pretending is not a massive layoff, is underway. First reported by Robert X. Cringely (a pen name) in Forbes, about 26 percent of the company's global workforce is being shown the door. At more than 100,000 people, that makes it the largest mass layoff at any U.S. corporation in at least 20 years. Cringely wrote that notices have started going out, and most of the hundred-thousand-plus will likely be gone by the end of February. IBM immediately denied Cringely's report,

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