IBM this week began notifying several thousand employees that they will be laid off, according to sources familiar with the matter.

These Resource Action (RA) notifications tell staff that they have 30 days to find another position within the company or they will be let go, with a few months of severance pay. Most of those on notice will not find new positions and will leave the company.

We've heard from insiders and former employees that the target headcount reduction is about 45 percent within IBM's US infrastructure group.

Another source said more than 50 percent of IBM's US Cloud group – which is part of the Infrastructure organization under SVP Ric Lewis – is expected to be let go.

Two former employees who still have contacts within the company speculated that the cuts are likely

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