IBM to cut 1315 jobs in the United States mainly involved in IT services

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time May 2, according to foreign media reports, IBM Staff Alliance said in Tuesday, IBM will be in the United States to cut 1315 jobs related to IT services. The IBM employee Union is a union organization under the American Association of Communications Workers (CWA).

According to the IBM Employee Alliance on its website, the areas that have been affected include computer server system operations, technology integration and management, and financial services. To date, the IBM employees ' Union has not commented further on this. The company has a total of 355,700 employees worldwide by the end of 2006, according to the latest annual report released by IBM.

John Bukovinsky, a spokesman for IBM, said he was not yet in a John Bokovensky to determine the exact number of layoffs. But on April 17, when the first quarter of 2007 was released, IBM said it would cut operating expenses in the US, so layoffs were not surprising. He also said the job cuts would not negatively affect IBM's future earnings, as the service sector always adjusts to the changing needs of its customers, and the layoffs are a normal change.

"We will take a series of measures to reduce costs in the US sector, including more attention to cost management and reallocation of resources," said Mark Loughridge, IBM's chief financial officer, Mark Rogrich at an analyst meeting April 17. He also said that IBM's first-quarter performance in the U.S. division was clearly weak, particularly in areas such as industry, financial services and communications. However, IBM has just announced in Monday that it will build a customer call center in Indiana Dalivilli (Daleville) and increase its staff by 500 people. Moore