Company: IBM
Date: 2020-04-15
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: current
Experience level: Senior

Cutting contractor rates and moving jobs from Ontario to Nova Scotia
Pros: Great team work from the actual workers.  We all pull together to get things done.
Cons: Always the threat of an axe over your head - if you work for IBM in Ontario - even Markham head office.  

IBM is actively looking to relocate Ontario jobs to Halifax- see the special agreement they have with the Nova Scotia Government, who subsidise salaries

In addition - April 14th - they advise all sub-contractors they were issuing a 25% pay cut.    The Sub-K's vendors were informed *before* the team leads or managers were informed.  Most Sub-Ks will quit - which is really what IBM wants, so that jobs can be moved.

Communication is terrible - as shown above.  

Your forced to find time to take 40 hours a year of internal web-based training.  All designed to sell IBM technologies to customers who don't want it.  If you don't find time to do 40 hours, you are marked down on your yearly review.   And you can't fit in the 40 hours during your regular work day, as the staff levels have been cut so much, there is no time.