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Title: Red Hat Back-Office Team Moving To IBM From 2026

Link: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/003...

Starting in 2026, Red Hat's back-office staff in HR, finance, legal, and
accounting will be transferred to IBM, while engineering, product, sales, and
marketing teams remain at Red Hat -- at least for now. The Register reports:
According to a communication sent to employees, those in General &
Administrative areas will join IBM, including the lion's share of the people
working in the HR, finance, accounting, and legal units at Red Hat. A source
told us the switch will be "implemented this year," although in some
countries "it might take longer due to legal constraints." The leadership
running those teams will remain within the Red Hat fold. Some are nervous
about the move, with tech companies -- notably IBM -- eliminating duplicated
roles to consolidate back-office functions. In January -- as has happened in
recent years -- IBM again forecast annual savings of $3.5 billion, partly
through job cuts. There is no public data on the size of the G&A
population within Red Hat but the total workforce is understood to be about
19,000 worldwide, with the bulk of those employed in the engineering, sales,
and support divisions. The team remaining at Red Hat will be part of the
central Strategy & Operations group managed by Mike Ferris. As such,
engineering, product, sales, and marketing personnel will be unaffected. For
now at least. "Culture has been dead for at least 1 year now," said Reddit
user Purple_Afternoon 966. "The experience might be different depending on
the department, but there is nothing left from the open culture praised. We
have now micromanagement, decision making from middle management that clearly
have no idea of what we do and how and trying to implement ideas that they
read somewhere, with no context, data and not giving answer or addressing
feedback."

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