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This is not actually true. The unofficial IBM union (http://www.endicottalliance.org/) estimates there to be ~66,000 FTE in the USA.



What is "not actually true"? OP's comment was not "there are no estimates that there are 66,000 FTE US IBMers."


"...only the research arm and a relatively small consulting staff and management remains US employees."

There are hardware and software engineers throughout the USA. I also wouldn't call 66,000 people relatively small.


Before replying I looked at your profile and read some of your previous posts. It is clear that you are somehow knowledgable on all things blue. This may be just due to your geography or because of more concrete connections. Whatever the case 66,000 is relatively small to the IBM of yester-day/year/decade. I was an IBMer in the 00s and 66,000 is smaller than it used to be. Moreover it is a lot smaller than how people remember the mighty Big Blue. I can not imagine any IBMer saying that number was not relatively small unless they had just finished on-boarding.

Do you know what percentage of these HW/SW engineers are in research? (i have no idea)




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