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Yes, IBM is Also Laying Off Indians (Even in India)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025

Hours ago:

Yesterday we pointed out that IBM (and Red Hat) was laying off many people in India. Sure, that goes against the popular/hot narrative of "jobs moving to India" (even if that is generally true), and TheLayoff.com just killed (deleted) an entire thread about it with nearly 20 comments on the topic. The latest comment there is in a thread that has thus far survived the censorship:

That latest commenter must be a reader of Techrights because of the analogy used hours after we had adopted it.

"Plantations" aren't necessarily ethnic. IBM has a long history of exploiting labour at low- or no-fee rates. Consider sharecropping. Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica explain: "Sharecropping in the United States gradually died out after World War II as the mechanization of farming became widespread. So too, African Americans left the system as they moved to better-paying industrial jobs in the North during the Great Migration. Similar forms of tenant farming are still found in some places around the world."

IBM predates World War II; IBM participated in World War II (for both sides) and profited from Hitler and the Nazis, which the chief of IBM had openly supported.

Saying that IBM is running "tech plantations" is actually an understatement in view of racist eugenics that IBM did in its early days. █