Posted on 01/19/2004 12:55:22 AM PST by pdjplano
NEW YORK - IBM will hire 15,000 new employees — 50 percent more than originally planned — in areas like software and services because of a rebound in the economy, a top executive said Saturday. Armonk, New York-based International Business Machines Corp., which has faced criticism for its plans to shift some U.S. workers to cheaper locations such as India and China, will add about 4,500 net jobs in the United States this year, according to Randy MacDonald, IBM’s senior vice president for human resources. “We are going to hire more in the U.S. than we shift” overseas, MacDonald said in an interview. more at the link..
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“We are going to hire more in the U.S. than we shift”
Meaning what? Shift 4,000 and hire 4,001. Who's getting shafted or shifted in this case?
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