IBM U.S. Job Cuts Reach at Least 1,300, Employee Group Says
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International Business Machines Corp., the world’s largest computer-services provider, has fired at least 1,300 workers in a round of U.S. job cuts that began yesterday, according to the employee group Alliance@IBM.
The job reduction includes at least 222 people in marketing for the software business and 165 in semiconductor research and development, according to Lee Conrad, a coordinator for Alliance@IBM, which is affiliated with the Communications Workers of America union.