Hi guys,

I am on bench since last 1 month.
And i have paternity leave ahead in November.
I am having multiple discussion with project opening. But it looks they dont want go ahead since i have leave of 3-4 weeks.

I heard employee on bench for 3 months are in danger of lay off. I am not sure what to do. Can you guys suggest ?

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IBM GBS is most sensitive about Billing and least tolerant to Benched resources . Band 8 or above employees live in GBS , on project to project basis . It's extremely difficult to bag a project for these bands . The owners are very likley to disallow a high band person unless lower bands in the project cannot perform , even forcefully , a certain role . Paid Leaves always pinch them as they see the same as billing loss.

There's nothing called employment or career for high bands but only ( project assignation or bench or plain exit ) .

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