Alliance@IBM - Simple Fact sheet

The following are the IBM North America
job cuts for 2009
as of August 26, 2009
Alliance@IBM has verified these job cuts through the receipt of
Resource Action packages.
(These include a small number of cuts in Canada)

Systems Technology Group = 1213 cut (Jan)
Software Group = 1419 (Jan)
Sales and Distribution = 1449 (Jan)
IBM HR = 92 (Jan)
Marketing and Communications = 147 (Jan)
IBM Research = 193 (Jan)
IBM Finance = 307 (Jan)
US CIO = 411 (March)
Services Delivery = 985 (March)
GBS Application Services = 1674 (March)
GBS Consulting services = 998 (March 26)
Managed Business Process Services = 97 (March 26)
Global GTS = 181 (March)
Systems Technology Group = 37 (March)
GBS Application Services = 462 (April)
ISC Global Supply = 245 (April)
Services Delivery = 87 (May)
Services Delivery = 222 (July)
Rational and WPLC RA = 12 (July) *
Global Sales Operations = 10 (July) *
GBS Industrial = 184 (Aug)

Total = 10,425 *
* = latest update
* = previous add
We have received numerous reports of small job cuts over the past year that have not been verified through RA packs.
Employee force outs based on Management Initiated Separation also increased this year.
IBM contractors also are not included in IBM's Resource Action packages.
We do not have numbers for these 3 categories but believe that these cuts added to the above push the total above 10,000.

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