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IBM is continuing to set up Employee Consultation Committees to identify people who want to jump rather than be pushed in the latest workforce purge, according to a memo seen by us. Rob Lamb, veep of manufacturing and development for Europe and a Hursley Lab leader, informed staff last week that Big Blue was forming an ECC to …

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    I heard there were significantly more than 600...

    As one of the 250 of so who were lucky and got out of GBS during the lost round at Xmas, I heard a rumour that the number of volunteers was somewhat closer to 1,000 than 600.

    Even so, at 600 thats 1/5.5 of the target population. If it was 1,000 applicants then that would make it 1/3.3 which is a tad embarrassing.

    Anyway those days are long behind me (well around 11 to be exact).

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      Re: I heard there were significantly more than 600...

      Lucky you. I was one of those who applied but didn't get accepted.

      As for compulsory redundancies, there were plenty who were forcibly made redundant from STG in the UK around this time last year.

      They're doing it division by division. And it will cycle round again. My name will be down.

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