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Report: IBM offering to relocate laid off workers to India, China, Brazil
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 —
... InformationWeek, citing an internal document, reports that IBM is helping recently laid off workers find positions with the company overseas. From the document: ...
IBM To North American Employees: To Keep Your Job, Move To India (IBM)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... around the H-1B visa program, which brings foreign tech workers (mostly from India) to the US for work (at below-market wages, critics say). But IBM (IBM) is going with a novel tack: Instead of bringing cheap Indian workers to America, the company is demanding its American workers move to cheap India and get paid India-standard wages.
A better option than being laid off? IBM has been quietly eliminating thousands of jobs over the past few weeks.
InformationWeek gets their hands on leaked IBM documents explaining the program:
IBM has ...
QOTD
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It’s more of a vehicle for people who want to expand their life experience by working somewhere else. A lot of people want to work in India.
– An IBM spokesperson spins “Project Match,” a program that relocates laid-off American workers to developing markets where the company has job openings. ...
Think of this layoff as your gateway to an exotic cross-cultural adventure
GMSV —
... “), but it still has opportunities available. Displaced employees at its North American facilities, for instance, are being given an opportunity to gain firsthand insight into the world of cheap offshore labor. According to an internal document obtained by InformationWeek , Big Blue has a program called Project Match that helps U.S. and Canadian workers whose jobs have been cut relocate to places where the company still has openings specifically, developing markets like India, China and Brazil. “Should you accept a position in one of these countries,” the notice explains, ...
IBM Still Mired in Layoff Spiral
eWeek - RSS Feeds —
... more information on exact numbers or other particulars on the layoffs. Word is IBM has eliminated nearly 5,000 positions since the action began last month, according to sources. According to an IBM employee organization known as the Alliance@IBM, Big Blue has laid off more than 4,800 people including 1,449 in Sales and Distribution, 1,419 in IBM Software Group, 1,200 in IBMs Systems and Technology Group, 307 in IBM Finance, 193 in IBM Research, and 92 in human resources. Meanwhile, according to reports , IBM has an effort known as Project Match, which is aimed at helping ...
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