My father was a PM at IBM who was hit in one of the smaller rounds of layoffs in 92 leading up to the big one in 93. He worked at the Westlake campus in DFW at the time. The entire project he was on was cancelled and all of its staff were cut, and it was just one of many. Personal metrics didn't enter into it, it was just a question of whether you were lucky or unlucky in project assignment at the time.
Over those couple of years IBM went from using almost all of the sizable campus it had built to just one small section, renting out the rest. DFW was otherwise undergoing massive growth at the time though, so the cuts were readily absorbed by Dell, MS, and many others (my father went to AMR). It wasn't like in the early 2000s when virtually everyone in DFW was downsizing or closing and as a fresh college graduate I was competing for entry-level jobs with admins with 10 years at MS.
Over those couple of years IBM went from using almost all of the sizable campus it had built to just one small section, renting out the rest. DFW was otherwise undergoing massive growth at the time though, so the cuts were readily absorbed by Dell, MS, and many others (my father went to AMR). It wasn't like in the early 2000s when virtually everyone in DFW was downsizing or closing and as a fresh college graduate I was competing for entry-level jobs with admins with 10 years at MS.