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Black & Blue: IBM hires Bain to cut costs, up productivity — The Register

IBM has indicated to senior Global Technology Services management that a third of the global workforce will be “productively redeployed” in 2018 with tens of thousands of personnel “impacted”, The Register’s Paul Kunert writes.

Here is the link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/11/ibm_gts_2018_consult/

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