ProPublica/Mother Jones Investigation Confirms IBM Layoffs Targeted Older Workers

ProPublica/Mother Jones Investigation Confirms IBM Layoffs Targeted Older Workers

  • March 25, 2018
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ProPublica/Mother Jones Investigation Confirms IBM Layoffs Targeted Older Workers

IBM continued to lay off workers as discreetly as possible in 2017, reporting on them in employment news roundups on occasion. But sadly, for me, it became a little bit old news (not, of course, for those newly affected). IBM repeatedly cuts older workers and U.S. jobs, according to those laid off, and denies it.

In fact, the company stopped reporting workforce numbers by country. Instead, it moved to just reporting total global workforce, which has stayed roughly level, even as the anecdotal reports of layoffs continued at a steady pace.

Source: ieee.org

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