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About 200 employees in IBM's Systems and Technology Group will be laid off, according to IBM.

Part of what the company calls a "rebalancing of skills," the layoff appears to have little to do with the economy in general and is confined to the Systems and Technology Group, according to IBM. Most of the employees work in staff functions attached to group headquarters in the Somers, N.Y., area, though several live outside Westchester County and still report to headquarters. No "client-facing" positions are affected, the company said.

The employees, who already have received, or soon will get notices, are being given 30 days in which to find other jobs. The company said they will be slotted into available positions at IBM if there is a match between employee experience and identified company requirements.

Chris Smith

Chris Smith was the Senior News Editor at MC Press Online from 2007 to 2012 and was responsible for the news content on the company's Web site. Chris has been writing about the IBM midrange industry since 1992 when he signed on with Duke Communications as West Coast Editor of News 3X/400. With a bachelor's from the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in English and minored in Journalism, and a master's in Journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Chris later studied computer programming and AS/400 operations at Long Beach City College. An award-winning writer with two Maggie Awards, four business books, and a collection of poetry to his credit, Chris began his newspaper career as a reporter in northern California, later worked as night city editor for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and went on to edit a national cable television trade magazine. He was Communications Manager for McDonnell Douglas Corp. in Long Beach, Calif., before it merged with Boeing, and oversaw implementation of the company's first IBM desktop publishing system there. An editor for MC Press Online since 2007, Chris has authored some 300 articles on a broad range of topics surrounding the IBM midrange platform that have appeared in the company's eight industry-leading newsletters. He can be reached at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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