IBM: Where Companies Come to Perish
Red Hat:
Kyndryl:
HashiCorp:
IBM:
It has meanwhile been pointed out that thelayoff.com is censoring stories about mass layoffs at Microsoft:
Every Friday there will be many people who have their "last day". At IBM, this term is a euphemism for "I got sacked" (or "was made redundant"); IBM implements "forever layoffs" or "silent layoffs", so employees are culled without triggering any WARN notices; they are expected to express gratitude and not mention the "L" word if they want severance; challenging IBM over the NDAs is too expensive and, even if IBM settled the matter, much of the settlement money would be funneled only to lawyers. If it's not settled (or won), it would be a net loss. So IBM gets away with this assault on freedom of expression.
This is really, objectively speaking, not a good situation. From what we can gather, based on Red Hat whistleblowers, IBM is basically a death knell to the Red Hat "Way" or culture. The "Open Source Way".
Many people inside IBM are extremely dissatisfied, but what they say publicly in Microsoft's LinkedIn is largely scripted. We live in a society - and most of us continue to tolerate a culture - where people cannot and will not talk about how they really feel. That's the sort of thing our national broadcasters mock North Korea for.
That there are attempts to squash any mention of mass layoffs at Microsoft (see above) is also noteworthy. It corrodes trust in media and/or social control media. █