IBM to reassign 30% of services staff in 2018: Report

International Business Machines plans to reassign up to 30 per cent of the 103,000 staff in its computer service delivery business this year with job cuts through attrition of around 10,000, technology website The Register reported on Thursday, citing unnamed company insiders. "We do not comment on speculation," an IBM spokesman said, asked about the report. The Register published a slide it said was from an IBM internal document, which showed 10,100 jobs classified as "attrition w/o backfill". According to the report, consultant Bain & Co was hired to help review IBM's Global Technology Services unit.