Almost 1,000 IBM Layoffs Not Newsworthy (Nobody Covers It), Unlike When Snap Does It and Mentions a Celebrated - or Reviled - Buzzword
All over the news today and yesterday:
Meanwhile, not a word regarding IBM layoffs.
Earlier this week we learned about and reported on IBM mass layoffs [1, 2]. Days earlier we reported, probably exclusively, on Red Hat mass layoffs. So once again over 800 IBM employees get sacked (like Confluent last month) and nobody in the media reports this. A month earlier the same in HashiCorp (IBM).
We can see hundreds of reports this week about ~1,000 Snap layoffs, yet not even one about IBM.
Mysterious, isn't it? There are also "forever layoffs" or "silent layoffs" going on.
Take those 3 recent posts as examples: (hours-old)
After we published this article ("IBM Agrees With Microsoft That Slop is Just for "Entertainment" and "at Your Own Risk") someone cited the pieces we were mocking - a PR charade for sure - and began a long discussion about the slop hype at IBM.
Maybe IBM can evade news coverage about its layoffs so long as it doesn't state something like "replaced by AI". Or maybe IBM just needs to pay - or lie - to the media. █