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India? China? Or Iraq?
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They will move 5000 jobs overseas at the same time.
JANUARY 19, 2004 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - Fresh from a profitable quarter, IBM Corp. has announced plans to hire 15,000 additional employees worldwide.
The hiring plans come just days after the Armonk, N.Y., company reported a 9.4% increase in fourth-quarter revenue, to $25.9 billion (see story), and predicted that 2004 would herald the return of the IT industry growth cycle.
A representative for the company declined to say today where the jobs would be added. IBM currently has 315,889 employees worldwide, according to its Web site, and the new hires will bump it to almost 331,000.
Jamie Snowdon, research director for IDC in the U.K., said that the announcement means that not only is IBM happy with its fourth-quarter performance but that it expects positive recovery in the first quarter of this year as well.
"When vendors aren't coy about saying things like that it means that they won't have a bad first quarter," he said.
Snowdon predicted that most of the new jobs would be created in the software and services divisions, and particularly in client-facing positions.
"IBM is ramping up its business consulting so there may be some very high-end consulting jobs being created in the U.S.," he said.
In reporting its quarterly results last week, the company said that it had strong growth in its services and personal systems group worldwide.
The announcement comes in the wake of a series of job cuts, during which the company said that it was trying to cut costs and reduce job redundancies. The latest trimming was made earlier this month when Big Blue slashed 400 U.S.-based software and services jobs.
Although the job cuts came in the same areas where Snowdon predicts the new positions will be created, he doesn't see a contradiction.
The recent job cuts were most likely lower-paying position that could easily be outsourced or moved overseas whereas the new positions are probably in high-end or customer-facing areas, he said.
JANUARY 19, 2004 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - Fresh from a profitable quarter, IBM Corp. has announced plans to hire 15,000 additional employees worldwide.
The hiring plans come just days after the Armonk, N.Y., company reported a 9.4% increase in fourth-quarter revenue, to $25.9 billion (see story), and predicted that 2004 would herald the return of the IT industry growth cycle.
A representative for the company declined to say today where the jobs would be added. IBM currently has 315,889 employees worldwide, according to its Web site, and the new hires will bump it to almost 331,000.
Jamie Snowdon, research director for IDC in the U.K., said that the announcement means that not only is IBM happy with its fourth-quarter performance but that it expects positive recovery in the first quarter of this year as well.
"When vendors aren't coy about saying things like that it means that they won't have a bad first quarter," he said.
Snowdon predicted that most of the new jobs would be created in the software and services divisions, and particularly in client-facing positions.
"IBM is ramping up its business consulting so there may be some very high-end consulting jobs being created in the U.S.," he said.
In reporting its quarterly results last week, the company said that it had strong growth in its services and personal systems group worldwide.
The announcement comes in the wake of a series of job cuts, during which the company said that it was trying to cut costs and reduce job redundancies. The latest trimming was made earlier this month when Big Blue slashed 400 U.S.-based software and services jobs.
Although the job cuts came in the same areas where Snowdon predicts the new positions will be created, he doesn't see a contradiction.
The recent job cuts were most likely lower-paying position that could easily be outsourced or moved overseas whereas the new positions are probably in high-end or customer-facing areas, he said.
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IBM Data Give Rare Look at Sensitive 'Offshoring' Plans
January 19, 2004: 12:53 a.m. EST
In a rare look at the numbers and verbal nuances a big U.S. company chews over when moving jobs abroad, internal documents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) show that it expects to save $168 million annually starting in 2006 by shifting several thousand high-paying programming jobs overseas, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Among other things, the documents indicate that for internal IBM accounting purposes, a programmer in China with three to five years experience would cost about $12.50 an hour, including salary and benefits. A person familiar with IBM's internal billing rates says that's less than one-fourth of the $56-an-hour cost of a comparable U.S. employee, which also includes salary and benefits.
According to the documents, which also provide managers with detailed advice on how to talk about the moves and their effect, IBM plans to shift the jobs from various U.S. locations to China, India and Brazil, where wages for skilled programmers are substantially lower.
At IBM headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., a spokesman said that the company expects to shift 3,000 U.S. jobs overseas this year. He declined to comment on plans for next year. He said IBM expects to add 15,000 jobs world-wide this year, with a net total of 5,000 of them in the U.S. That would increase IBM's world-wide employment to 330,000, the highest level since 1991.
IBM hasn't announced the plan to shift workers overseas -- elements of which were reported in The Wall Street Journal last month -- either internally or externally. It isn't clear if the documents are final versions; most carry dates of late November and December 2003. The spokesman declined to comment on the documents seen by the Journal.
Like other high-tech companies, IBM is moving knowledge work to cheap-labor sites outside the U.S. This "offshoring" process has raised fears that even high-skill jobs that were supposed to represent the U.S.'s future are being lost to countries that have already taken over low-skill factory work.
Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter William M. Bulkeley contributed to this report.
Dow Jones Newswires 01-19-04 0053ET Copyright (C) 2004 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
January 19, 2004: 12:53 a.m. EST
In a rare look at the numbers and verbal nuances a big U.S. company chews over when moving jobs abroad, internal documents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) show that it expects to save $168 million annually starting in 2006 by shifting several thousand high-paying programming jobs overseas, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Among other things, the documents indicate that for internal IBM accounting purposes, a programmer in China with three to five years experience would cost about $12.50 an hour, including salary and benefits. A person familiar with IBM's internal billing rates says that's less than one-fourth of the $56-an-hour cost of a comparable U.S. employee, which also includes salary and benefits.
According to the documents, which also provide managers with detailed advice on how to talk about the moves and their effect, IBM plans to shift the jobs from various U.S. locations to China, India and Brazil, where wages for skilled programmers are substantially lower.
At IBM headquarters in Armonk, N.Y., a spokesman said that the company expects to shift 3,000 U.S. jobs overseas this year. He declined to comment on plans for next year. He said IBM expects to add 15,000 jobs world-wide this year, with a net total of 5,000 of them in the U.S. That would increase IBM's world-wide employment to 330,000, the highest level since 1991.
IBM hasn't announced the plan to shift workers overseas -- elements of which were reported in The Wall Street Journal last month -- either internally or externally. It isn't clear if the documents are final versions; most carry dates of late November and December 2003. The spokesman declined to comment on the documents seen by the Journal.
Like other high-tech companies, IBM is moving knowledge work to cheap-labor sites outside the U.S. This "offshoring" process has raised fears that even high-skill jobs that were supposed to represent the U.S.'s future are being lost to countries that have already taken over low-skill factory work.
Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter William M. Bulkeley contributed to this report.
Dow Jones Newswires 01-19-04 0053ET Copyright (C) 2004 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
yeah. I talked with sales in my company the other day, he said they had been pretty busy recently. IT projects which were once scheduled in 2005 were now on the road map of 2004. He also said there were a lot of quotes, sales, and contracts going. The economy had turned arround.
