Posted on 09/29/2017 8:41:30 AM PDT by RightGeek
But over the last decade, IBM has shifted its center of gravity halfway around the world to India, making it a high-tech example of the globalization trends that the Trump administration has railed against.
Today, the company employs 130,000 people in India — about one-third of its total work force, and more than in any other country. Their work spans the entire gamut of IBM’s businesses, from managing the computing needs of global giants like AT&T and Shell to performing cutting-edge research in fields like visual search, artificial intelligence and computer vision for self-driving cars. One team is even working with the producers of Sesame Street to teach vocabulary to kindergartners in Atlanta.
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The work in India has been vital to keeping down costs at IBM, which has posted 21 consecutive quarters of revenue declines as it has struggled to refashion its main business of supplying tech services to corporations and governments.
The tech industry has been shifting jobs overseas for decades, and other big American companies like Oracle and Dell also employ a majority of their workers outside the United States.
But IBM is unusual because it employs more people in a single foreign country than it does at home. The company’s employment in India has nearly doubled since 2007, even as its work force in the United States has shrunk through waves of layoffs and buyouts. Although IBM refuses to disclose exact numbers, outsiders estimate that it employs well under 100,000 people at its American offices now, down from 130,000 in 2007. Depending on the job, the salaries paid to Indian workers are one-half to one-fifth those paid to Americans, according to data posted by the research firm Glassdoor.
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I’m curious as to how many in management there are white expats?
Lots I’d bet
This really disgusts me. Research should be done here. We’re the ones that take it from “0” to “1”.
I worked for IBM in the early 1980’s and they had a famous no layoff policy that did not last into the 21st century.
Well it is “International” Business Machines...
and they all claim, that each of them, are able to speak and understand American English.
No layoffs is an easy policy when revenue keeps going up. But they keep missing boats. They continued to bet on big iron as the world went small, they completely ignored virtualization, and they haven’t noticed they could become a serious cloud company in about 5 minutes.
They had quite a few employees at Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, etc.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
| United States Largest Private Employers (as of 2016)[1][2] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Rank | Employer | Global number of Employees |
| 1 | Wal-Mart Stores | 2,300,000 |
| 2 | Kroger | 443,000 |
| 3 | Yum China | 420,000 |
| 4 | International Business Machines | 414,400 |
| 5 | The Home Depot | 406,000 |
| 6 | McDonald's | 375,000 |
| 7 | Berkshire Hathaway | 367,700 |
| 8 | Amazon.com | 341,400 |
| 9 | FedEx | 335,767 |
| 10 | United Parcel Service | 335,520 |
IBM would inflict a horrid cloud based version of Notes that would be somehow worse than the client.
Yep. The fact that IBM let an online bookstore leave it in the cloud computing dust is pretty unbelievable
Big iron was a good bet until it wasn’t. They never took desktops seriously and didn’t understand what desktops meant to the big iron world. Their relationship with virtualization is similar to their desktop relationship, they could do it, but they never understood the implications. Which is funny since VMWare basically brought back big iron, they should have been perfectly lined up for it.
Most of _corporate_Ameria_ are now globalist, non-USA. Actually against USAians and our heritage.
It’s funny how nobody has managed to make an e-mail server that’s not awful. Conceptually it doesn’t seem that hard, but they all stink.
Notes seems to be designed by descendants of the Marquis De Sade.
We have to deal with IBM India every day and they absolutely suck wind.
Of course, India has more than three times as many people as the United States.
Microsoft is an Indian company.
Even in Redmond, WA, USA, I would bet (based on my experience there) that the largest citizenship group by country of birth is Indian, not American.
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