If reports are to be believed IBM is laying off thousands of employees across multiple locations in the US. While the exact number of affected employees remains undisclosed insiders suggest the layoffs could impact around 9000 workers. Cloud Classic division is said to have taken a major hit. which evolved from its 2013 acquisition of SoftLayer. Reports indicate that approximately 25% of Cloud Classic employees are being let go. According to sources speaking to The Register IBM has been implementing job cuts across several business units including consulting corporate social responsibility cloud infrastructure sales and internal IT teams reporting to the company’s Chief Information Officer. However despite the scale of the layoffs IBM has not publicly acknowledged the cuts making it difficult to determine whether this is part of a structured round of redundancies or an ongoing workforce reduction strategy. The company routinely carries out layoffs under the guise of “Resource Actions” while also enforcing return-to-office (RTO) mandates and co-location requirements to encourage voluntary attrition. Employees have reportedly been dismissed in multiple regions including Raleigh North Carolina; New York City and State; Dallas Texas; and California. These layoffs follow last week’s reported cuts within IBM’s Marketing and Communications division which were disclosed in an internal meeting led by Senior Vice President Jonathan Adashek. Beyond these structured layoffs individual employees from other departments have been informed of their termination by their managers further reinforcing the widespread nature of the job cuts.