IBM ontkent massaontslag

IBM ontkent dat het van plan is 26 procent van zijn werknemers zo'n 100,000 mensen, te ontslaan zoals in Forbes wordt gesuggereerd. IBM noemt de geruchten ongegrond en belachelijk. Wel verdwijnen enkele duizenden banen. Hieronder het commentaar van IBM in het Engels:

"IBM does not comment on rumors, even ridiculous or baseless ones. If anyone had checked information readily available from our public earnings statements, or had simply asked us, they would know that IBM has already announced the company has just taken a $600 million charge for workforce rebalancing. This equates to several thousand people, a mere fraction of what’s been reported.

"Last year, IBM hired 45,000 people, and the company currently has about 15,000 job openings around the world for new skills in growth areas such as cloud, analytics, security, and social and mobile technologies. This is evidence that IBM continues to remix its skills to match where we see the best opportunities in the marketplace.”

Door: Witold Kepinski