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Rumour: Mass Layoffs in IBM Canada Today

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 27, 2025

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Red Hat was founded by a Canadian

The media has generally been catching up with and writing about IBM layoffs throughout this week. Many reports come from Indian sites, citing The Register (UK).

They say IBM plans to lay off about (or almost) 9,000 people in the US, but in more recent hours we see chatter about Canada. We've taken stock of the gossip, which seems time-sensitive as it's based on something which happened only hours ago.

Layoff in Ottawa?? The whole Qradar team in Ottawa got 1-1s out of nowhere today scheduled for tomorrow.

"The whole Qradar team in Ottawa got 1-1s out of nowhere today scheduled for tomorrow," it says. This team got some scorn online for being quite redundant; it's one way for IBM to pretend to have a strategy (buy other companies) and fake revenue growth, even where there is none.

One-on-one ("1-1s") typically means manager meets all the people one at a time, in private (it's hard to think what would require this except layoffs, especially given what the media says this month).

Another separate threads brought this up some hours ago. It said: "Heard something happening by end of week in select Canada locations, possibly one of Markham/Ottawa/Fredericton."

IBM Layoff March 24 to March 28: Heard something happening by end of week in select Canada locations, possibly one of Markham/Ottawa/Fredericton.

There are reasons to believe this is not baseless. There are currently press reports about IBM moving where the workforce is cheaper to employ and there are strong reactions to that, e.g. this thread:

Last time I checked. IBM was a US based company. How can this be good for the country? How does this help the American economy? How does this strength in America ? Make us better? The answer is , is it doesn’t . It only benefits, shareholders, and the executives of the company who get paid in stock bonuses. Millions and millions of dollars in stock bonuses. They should not be allowed in the US.. I am all for corporate profits if you benefit America. And employee Americans. And invest in America.

This one also:

IBM layoffs: “Aim is to shift employment to India as much as possible,” say sources

Maybe later today some people from Canada will say something firmer and maybe some media will even talk about that. It usually keeps silent as it barely investigates, it relies on others doing that, then it issues some LLM slop about the same.

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