[bruceburge]

IBM has about 700+ people in two different development centers in Louisiana, with a goal of 1200 total. There has been no word here about the employees having to relocate to one of the locations listed in the article, nor has there been any mass layoffs.

It was published around may of 2016, that IBM was planning to layoff roughly 14000 people, I'm willing to bet, this is more a part of that strategy than it is about people working together.

[acomjean]

A friend who's company was bought by IBM is being laid off shortly. He supposedly will be getting an offer to relocate to Baton Rouge.

In Massachusetts they moved a lot of work to way outside the city to the 495 beltway (littleton). Employees loved that.

(I used to be an IBMer at Yorktown Heights)