IBM cuts down more than 1700 staff
IBM unions Alliance @ IBM said Tuesday, IBM laid off another 1,700 employees, most of which the United States government departments, staff, and this number may also continue to increase. Alliance @ IBM had disclosed yesterday, IBM has laid off nearly 500 employees, but since then the organization has received more separation documents.
Alliance @ IBM National Leader Lee Conrad (Lee Conrad), said, IBM job cuts this week’s upcoming activities and spread across multiple departments across the United States. He said: “We are moving from IBM, where employees received a report that said it is training a replacement overseas, he puts being laid off.” Conrad said last year, IBM has been cut in the United States and Canada of 10.4 million employees.
According to a source familiar with the matter said, IBM laid off this year’s expenditures are likely to remain in the past two years, within the same range. According to IBM with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) annual report show that last year IBM layoffs related activities with global spending 4.74 billion U.S. dollars in 2008 compared with 737 million U.S. dollars.
In the past four quarters, IBM’s sales have dropped by three quarters of all, this situation has prompted the company to part of the work carried out on overseas markets. The sources declined to be named, said most of the restructuring costs this year, IBM will come from Europe and Asia.
IBM spokesman Doug Shelton (Doug Shelton) said yesterday: “We are continuing to re-skilled and integrated corporate structure to meet the changing needs of customers.” He said today declined to comment further.
As of December 31 last year, until, IBM’s global workforce of 399,409 people, which means that the number of job cuts in its workforce, the proportion of less than 1%.