Posted on 06/24/2005 9:54:36 AM PDT by phoenix_004
US tech giant IBM plans to increase its payroll in India this year by 14,000 workers, even as it cuts 13,000 jobs in Europe and the United States, a labor group said on Friday.
The shift, first reported by The New York Times, highlights the transfer of some skilled jobs to low-wage countries such as India by a number of companies including IBM, the world's largest information technology company.
The moves in India were indicated in what was claimed to be an internal company document posted on the website of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, of Washtech, which seeks to unionize high-tech workers.
It indicated IBM's Indian workforce would rise to 38,196 in 2005 from 24,150 in 2004.
IBM declined to comment on the document or specific workforce levels. But company spokesman Edward Barbini said IBM is increasing its staff in high-growth countries such as India to meet increasing demands.
"IBM India has seen double-digit growth in the last five years," Barbini told AFP. "In 2004, IBM India recorded revenue growth of 45 percent. We ended December 31 with roughly 23,000 employees in India making IBM India's sixth largest IT employer."
Barbini offered no specifics on increases in Indian hiring, but noted that the company has announced it would hire 1,000 programmers for a new software center in Hyderabad.
"India, China and Brazil are high-growth markets for IBM and we are hiring to support our local growth in those markets," he said. "There is a rapidly growing demand for business transformation services."
Washtech said the moves were hurting workers in the US and elsewhere.
"IBM is really pushing this offshore outsourcing to relentlessly cut costs and to export skilled jobs abroad," Marcus Courtney, president of Washtech, told the Times.
"The winners are the richest corporations in the world, and American workers lose."
You can always work at Wal Mart and live in a tent. Vote third party before it is to late.
Quote: total nonsense. this is not the fault of the US education system. that same education system created the engineers which developed the telecommunications and internet revolutions in the late 90s. what happened, everyone "got dumb" in the last 5 years?
this is corporate greed, pure and simple, and a political class that has been bought off to allow it under the banner of "free trade".
Right on Oceanview!! American workers are the most productive and innovative in the whole world...except at competing for 88 cent per hours jobs.
Agree with that point of view. Think of all those Japanese and German Car Company's setting up shop in the States hiring Americans, to satisfy the US demand, instead employing fellow country men in their respective countries.
Wrong answer.
Unless you are willing to go for the Phd, an engineering degree is not a good idea for many people. How many lawyers or teachers spend months out of work?
As it is, there are far too many engineers, especially considering the number we import. Engineers have become nearly worthless to large companies, they can hire and fire at will.
The reason why there are no engineering students is because it is one of the dumber career moves you can make.
"Vote third party before it is to late."
Constitution/libertarian last time
Pointer - What did PM Blair say yesterday ... something about an Indian and Chinese threat from where .... ?
Welcome to Globalization ... !!!
The outsourcing to India and the turd world is an end run around the pain in the a$$ American worker who expects to be paid decent wages.
The chief engineers, inventors, scientists and entrepreneurs that created Americas greatness come from the top 5% of the population
The educational system is no longer interested in educating the top 5% to their full potential. They only care about making their quotas on "No Child Left Behind". They get hit if the bottom students do not make minimum standards. they get no extra goodies if the top 5% are educated beyond the average
It's the main reason I homeschool
You don't really believe that there's that much of a difference in price between the different products after corporate markups?I would rather pay a few dollars more for something if it meant it was produced in America.What good are cheap goods if it's all we can afford because we lost all our high paying jobs?A strong country is one that produces tangible goods which produce real wealth but America is doing less and less of that.Instead we are providing more and more services whose labor produces nothing that stores value such as countries who rely on tourism.If we keep trying to drive prices down we will end up pricing ourselves out of the market which is already happening.
You might, but a significant percentage of Americans would rather shop at Wal-mart.
In another life we tried it with some PhD's in Eastern Europe. They blew deadlines by quarters, and then what was delivered was unusable. We threw managers at it, sending some of our best to live there for a while.
The ones we sent eventually quit. One went to a competitor, who then proceeded to kill off one of our product lines completely.
The ones in the states were lashed to bad product, language barriers, and the cherry on top - time zones - not to mention haranguing by management above them.
They bailed too.
In the end we spent more money producing a product the entire industry knew was coming almost 18 months ahead of time. They knew the weaknesses, price, capabilities, etc.
It lead to the company being sold before it blew apart.
the specific problem for engineering - is that market pay and job opportunities are not drawing these top candidates into the field. they will go for law, finance, & business instead.
Darned unFRiendly Americans buggaring up the lives of more Indians.
Shame on them!
/sarcasm
I wish I could say I am impressed, but for over two decades I was part of a startup company that specialized in a product that Big Blue said was obsolete, never to be used in the near or distant future.
They were wrong then, and when they tried to get back in to the market we kicked their butts every which way imaginable.
So, IBM has made it's fair share of BIG blunders, most of them coming when they no longer had monopoly power or status in the industry.
The name remains, but the 1947 monolith is frayed.
And the "BUNCH" is way today ...?
To help you ... "B" is Burroughs as in B5000/B5500/B6500/... those "stack architecture" machines ...
And, I still get those dividend checks ... going on for decades now.
Pity ... seems you "bet" on the wrong horse.
"Is it going up? "
Is the sky blue?
ping
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