It sounds like they are sending workers back home.
Brazil sounds OK.
Scrappleface must have a new URL...
Oh, yeah thats gonna work...not! People in India are already complaining that when they call for computer support they get some person in England or the States.
“A lot of people want to work in India.”
Yeah, until they get homesick for an American style toilet.
Indians will kill Americans who go there to take their jobs. Quite unlike the gentle treatment the Indians received from well mannered Americans.
“IBM has laid off more than 4,000 workers in the United States since the beginning of January, according to an employee group.”
Some perspective — 4000 IBM workers amounts to about 1% of the workforce of close to 400,000 people.
I believe that HP has announced that they are laying off 10% of their people, and Novell recently announced that 25% were to be cut.
Ah yes...always a fly in the ointment
Do the bars have “happy hours” there? And how are the beaches?
Bookmark for later.
If I was a single, White American guy, I’d take the offer to relocate in Brazil. In a heartbeat.
I'm sure they will work for less than their American corporate executives couterparts....
I have been a consumer of IT resources for years. You are not alone in this experience. In fact you hit on IBM's real motivation for paying US people to go to India instead of just hiring people from India and avoiding this cost. I am very good friends with a director of HR for IBM in India. He says IBM at the office where he works had a turnover of more than 35,000 people last year alone. This relocation assistance is their attempt to introduce some sort of stability in their India work force.
I believe these relocation packages have terms to them requiring the employee to stay with IBM for a required period of time or they have to pay some of the relocation back to the company. I speculate that perhaps part of their visa assistance will make the stay in India (or other country) dependent on the employee staying with IBM.
It’s all part of the new Obama One World Economic Plan.
Import Indians, Somalis, Nigerians, and Pakistanis, and export Americans.
Level the playing field.
Much easier to join the ranks of the unemployed and take the handouts of Obama. And then- 95% of the population is going to get a tax break whether they pay taxes or not. You would probably come out ahead being unemployed.
This is freaking ridiculous. They want American labor but they want to pay third world prices for it.
Screw them. Wait until they learn that middle management and marketing can also be outsourced.
I don’t understand why they wat American workers. I thought that we were “non-competative”. Oh wait! There’s a clause in there that says you can expect to be paid the “prevailing 3rd world country wages”.
Of course the free traitors will say “it’s not bad”. “opportunity”!
Who the hell wants to go to India?
Um, Mr. CEO, will I still be able to grill a steak without being beaten to death by an angry mob?