Hallmark of Fake News: "Single-digit" (Percentage) and 1% Isn't the Same Thing
What's wrong with the following?
This headline is a lie. IBM didn't say 1%, it said single-digit, so it could be 5% or even 9% (about 25,000 layoffs).
Misinformation relayed hours ago: (it rightly points out Red Hat is impacted too)
The corporate media has been filled with utterly poor reporting about IBM layoffs for 2+ days now [1, 2].
People are meant to think only a few people are impacted.
Take Bay Area for instance. "IBM lays off dozens of Bay Area employees", says one headline. They make the numbers seem small by focusing on only one office, the one in which 75 were removed (in some offices ~500 got removed). Another site said in the headline this was just "workforce rebalancing" (apparently "rebalancing" is the new layoffs euphemism). Where's investigative reporting? Who's chasing actual tallies? IBM's HR won't spoon-feed this information to the media; investigative work must be done. █