IBM Media Puff Pieces While Layoffs Go On and On
Has the PR industry absorbed the press?
Published yesterday: IBM is "Increasing Its Temporary and Part-time Headcount" While Net Headcount Falls (Despite Buying Many Companies and Their Workforce)
Brutal comment on this latest "headcount" spin:
Similarly in comments on a similar puff piece from WSJ (News Corp.) about "hey hi":
Seems like an ad: (marketing and buzzwords over substance)
Slopfarms are having a go at it too: (recycling the puff pieces using LLMs)
Yesterday:
Some hours ago:
They had mass layoffs last month: Mass Layoffs at HashiCorp, IBM Hid Them (those impacted become visible after a month's notice)
IBM has mass layoffs.
IBM is gutting Red Hat, it has mass layoffs in HashiCorp, and earlier this month it sacked over 800 people at Confluent.
Somehow nobody in the media covers those things, but the so-called 'journalists' still have plenty of time to prepare IBM puff pieces (like the above) that don't tell the true story of deliberately twist facts.
Hours ago: "I have recently been impacted by a layoff with no prior notice. On Monday, 23 March morning, I was informed that Today is your last working day. All happened suddenly in a day and extremely shocking for me [...] I have previously worked at Veracity by RGP, Red Hat..."