IBM would plan thousands of job cuts in Germany. That made a vakbondswoordvoerster of the company is well known. IBM would be in a large scale operation permanent jobs would be replaced by temporary.
The reorganization, which by the IBM internal ‘Generation Open’ is called, would among other things lead to the fact that about eight thousand of the twenty thousand jobs in Germany are to be deleted. Workers would be replaced by so-called liquid-workers. That is the term that IBM used for employees who temporarily for a project are recruited. By the use of this kind of labour hopes IBM projects 30 percent faster, while the cost with a third party would need to be reduced.
When and how many redundancies there will precisely take place is not yet decided. Also, it is not clear whether other countries have also been job cuts as part of a reorganization. IBM was not available for questions about possible redundancies in the Netherlands or Belgium. The group has Reuters have announced that they officially no layoffs have been announced, but experimenting with the use of temporary workers.