Summary: Microsoft staff is baffled about the disparity between claims or prosperity and relentless mass layoffs among other cuts; maybe scepticism is well overdue
Unless IBM issues a statement (admission) to the media or issues WARN notices (in the US), the lousy media will simply assume - however wrongly - that nothing is happening and there's nothing to report
Any day that passes without European media and European politicians doing anything about it merely discredits the media and the EU (or national governments)