Reply to post: Re: What the Hell Has Happened to IBM?

She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off

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Re: What the Hell Has Happened to IBM?

Back even in the 1920s, 1930s IBM had a revolutionary employment record of taking on people of all sorts of backgrounds....

Back then skilled work was done by a minority of the workforce. Nowadays skilled workers are almost the equivalent of factory workers. It's not IBM that changed, but the context around the workplace.

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