IBM

Large companies like IBM provide innumerable opportunities for career advancement and personal growth.

I'm happy with my compensation, and I feel like IBM has good systems in place for employee feedback and review processes.

Also, I feel work/life balance is effective at IBM. As less staff is asked to do more, management does appear more flexible on where and when that work is accomplished.

IBM is clearly extremely committed to moving all new staffing overseas to cheaper labor markets. It makes being a US employee frustrating and causes continual staff paranoia.

US staff members are rarely replaced, and the existing US workforce is continually forced to do more with less. Resource actions (forced headcount reductions) and department offshoring plans are constantly in progress, and it causes a constant unproductive rumor mill effect across all organizations.

Make a commitment to your current employees and be clearer on future offshoring plans.

I think the following statements and commitments from senior management would solve the organizational paranoia issue:

• "No headcount reductions will occur for staff members that meet average or above performance results."
• "Further department offshoring is likely to occur, but affected staff will be targeted to fill vacancies in other departments from retirements and employee departures. No employee with a PBC 2 or higher will be terminated as a result of a resource action or offshoring program."