Bangalore, 26/1: IBM Corp on Wednesday said it would lay off 3,900 people as part of some asset divestments and posted flat fourth-quarter revenue due to lacklustre demand for its consulting services.
Big Blue spun off its large and laggard managed infrastructure business, now called Kyndryl, in late 2021 to focus on its hybrid cloud, where it helps clients set up a combination of their own data centres and leased computing resources. It also divested its healthcare data and analytics business from its AI business Watson Health.
The resulting layoffs will cause a $300 million charge in the January-March period, IBM said.
But the company’s chief financial officer, James Kavanaugh, told Reuters on Wednesday that IBM would continue to hire in focus areas.
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