Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!njin!patterso From: patterso@pilot.njin.net (Ross Patterson) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Bad Tidings? Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 89 13:45:49 GMT References: <9984@venera.isi.edu> <787@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., CCIS Lines: 17 Bill Davidsen writes: > There were some additional details in one of the papers. The incentive >is 1 week pay for every six months service. And it said the offer was >not being made to engineers or programmers. Does that mean they are not >being layed off or that they have no choice and get no fancy severance >package? IBM traditionally offers incentives when they want to reduce the workforce. They have a long standing "no layoffs" policy, although I hear they can make it awfully hard for you to not accept an incentive-to-leave. Since they're not offering engineers or programmers the extra cash, that means they're not interested in reducing the technical staff. From what we've seen in the last few rounds, they're probably interested in reducing middle management again. Ross Patterson Rutgers University