IBM Allegedly Found New Tricks for Silent Layoffs: LPI, Then MIS (Not PIP)
Earlier this year: Sounds Like IBM is Preparing for Mass Layoffs/Redundancies in Red Hat, Albeit in "PIP" (Performance Improvement Plan) or "Relocation" Clothing
Last night:
IBM layoffs are happening. But IBM knows how to hide the scale (if not the very existence) of these layoffs. The WARN Act has loopholes, e.g. gradually lay off few workers each month, however in many US states at the same time (to remain below reporting threshold/s).
Then there are "PIPs" (Performance Improvement Plans) and "Relocation". As somebody put it yesterday: "there isn't enough space for all" (after a relocation).
"That's a feature not a bug," someone then responded, "RTO and site consolidation is just RA in disguise." ("RA" is layoff/s in IBM's dictionary).
Someone then said, "for anyone else wondering how they are planning to fit potentially 100+ more people into the same building... its easy! they aren't..."
But in more recent hours, in another context, someone wrote: "Forget about PIP, you get LPI and straight an MIS, 10% is targetted. Every quarter. Get legal aid, join union. And yes I can confirm its happening."
In another one the person wrote about October layoffs: "Already happening, list was known september, first LPI, then MIS. We are resisting with worker council."
The word "We" implies it's an insider and they organise (collective action).
Remember that "Red Hat layoffs" won't be reported after the bluewashing [1, 2]. It'll be called "IBM RAs" (or something that combines the above banishment tactics). Many people have left Red Hat lately. Some announced that in public. █