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IBM Fired as Many as 100,000 in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows

  • Moves were to make IBM appear as ‘cool’ as Google and Amazon
  • Big Blue is facing several age-discrimination lawsuits
Ginni Rometty, chief executive officer of IBM.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
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International Business Machines Corp. has fired as many as 100,000 employees in the last few years in an effort to boost its appeal to millennials and make it appear to be as “cool” and “trendy” as Amazon and Google, according to a deposition from a former vice president in an ongoing age discrimination lawsuit.

The technology company is facing several lawsuits accusing it of firing older workers, including a class-action case in Manhattan and individual civil suits filed in California, Pennsylvania and Texas last year.