Low single-digit percentage of global workforce cut in Q4 2025
Source-backed update · Confirmed reduction · IBM
EventConfirmed November 4, 2025
ReportedNovember 4, 2025
Added to WorkHushNovember 4, 2025
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The Register · Nov 4, 2025Supports: Reported IBM's statement to Bloomberg that a fourth-quarter action would affect a low single-digit percentage of its global workforce, and its end-2024 headcount of about 270,300.Open the sourceDatacenterDynamics · Nov 5, 2025Supports: Reported the same IBM statement, first reported by Bloomberg on November 4, 2025.Open the source
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IBM did not give a number, teams or locations; estimates of a few thousand rest on its roughly 270,000 headcount at end of 2024, and unit-level figures in press reports come from unnamed insiders.
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