Company: IBM
Date: 2019-09-16
Overall rating: 1/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Senior

A lot of good people were Co-located!
Pros: The  benefits were good.
Cons: In 2017 and 2018, IBM decided to co-located their entire US Marketing department. This is where they asked their entire Marketing team to move to one of the 6 key cities that they had selected. If you didn't up and move your entire family, then you were without a job. 

This was completely unfair as there were so many GREAT marketers who had been loyal to the company 20 or 30 years, and were now without jobs! The only ones who could truly co-locate were younger people with no families or roots established.

So, if you were in your mid-30s and up, and not currently located in 1 of the key cities, you were basically going to lose your job.

This was a cheap way to layoff a lot of great older workers, and IBM should be ashamed of themselves!!! STAY away from IBM unless you're under 30 years old!