The cut is part of a restructuring plan global following the company's weak results in the first quarter of the year.
He already announced yesterday. IBM is going to make a cut in its workforce of us.UU to affect around 1,300 workers from different areas of business.
The reduction involves at least 222 professionals in the area of marketing for software business and 165 of the area of research and development of semiconductors, he said Lee Conrad, Coordinator of the coalition of Association of the company, as reported by Bloomberg.
The move is part of a global restructuring plan that IBM announced in April after the weak results for the first quarter.
The company then announced a reduction of employment which would focus abroad and which would be completed at the end of June. The restructuring will cost 1 billion dollars worldwide, including compensation expenses.
Analyst Laurence Balter, of Oracle Investment Research, has detailed that the manufacturer presicindira of between 6,000 and 8,000 jobs around the world, probably based on the $ 1 billion figure targeted by the company.
"Change is constant in the industry of technology and the transformation is a feature of our business model," said IBM in a public statement.
Yesterday in the bag manufacturer shares fell 1.4% to $201,20, while this year had risen by 5%, recovering from the fall in April after the results below forecasts.
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