IBM layoffs now top 1,200

[FarCenter]

IBM has laid off over 1,200 employees in the last few days, according to a union organising group for the company's staff.

Alliance@IBM's homepage reports job cuts of 1,202 staff members, a collated figure gathered from the organisation's members sending in their severance letters, so-called "resource action" documents.

Lee Conrad, the coordinator of the group, told Bloomberg that most of the job cuts were in the US, although some were in Canada.

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IBM's current global workforce is 433,362 employees. It no longer releases geographic breakdown information on its staff, but at the end of 2008, the company had 115,000 workers in the US out of its 398,455 worldwide.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/29/ibm_layoffs/

[leveymg]

1. IBM likely has far fewer than 100K US workers today.

It's a "US corporation" primarily for copyright, tax and legal purposes.