Press Reports Say Almost 10,000 Western IBMers Laid Off
Conservative Estimate: Over 10,000 IBM Workers to Be Laid Off in the Next Two Waves [last month]
This afternoon we saw about 3 articles stating that IBM lays off about 9,000 American workers. One article said "IBM to Slash Nearly 9,000 Jobs in US" and Hindustan Times said, "IBM laying off an estimated 9,000 workers in US, back to office mandate for others". The same number gets repeated a lot:
Knowing that a lot of coverage about layoffs is fake (LLM slop) [1, 2], we've checked if the above is original/autentic and it seems like it is.
We've been trying to verify/corroborate this somehow, or rather, we tried to figure out where this number (9,000) comes from because we saw claims of hundreds laid off in Bratislava, some in Ireland, and over 100 in Canada. █