When they want the labor (and I worked for a competitor of IBM) and they want to lay you off then relocate you to the third world to pay you less than half of your old salary, I’d say they are cooking the books.
Gates and others lied to Congress when they said they needed more foreign workers (and the ability to import billions of dollars of compiled/manufactured code without paying any import duty) because there was insufficient talent here.
Last I knew, the Orwellian pigs at the top of the companies were profiteering off of their false meme.
I am not saying there should be a mandatory salary. They are saying there aren’t the people who can do it here then they are trying to ship people OVER THERE to do the work.
Lies. Damn lies.
I agree with you that there is shady (my words) stuff going on. For example, IBM had massive layoffs in the developed countries (U.S., Australia, Canada, Italy, etc.) in June/July — only to turn around and rehire many as contractors. I can understand periodic cuts to get rid of “dead wood,” but at this point, there is almost no one left to even set up employee laptops, much less sell them ...
Also, the entire hardware division (STG) was furloughed for a week (last week and others, the week before). They did get 1/3 of their pay, I believe. Only one person/friend I know got to stay and skip the furlough (he takes angry customer calls). Everyone else was told to stay home and they were banned from checking their laptops. Of course when they got back, they were in trouble for not responding to management emails. (The same managers who furloughed them.)
Seems shaky to me, unfortunately.