| Graduates: Follow The Jobs To Beijing |
Kim Springs
SCCF
June 11, 2007
Some American colleges and universities are encouraging young people to get ready to look for work in places like Beijing and other foreign countries. Apparently, they'll need to get their talents over to where the jobs are going.
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IBM's LEAN Project:
by I, Cringely
LEAN is about offshoring and outsourcing at a rate never seen before at IBM. For two years Big Blue has been ramping up its operations in India and China with what I have been told is the ultimate goal of laying off at least one American worker for every overseas hire. The BIG PLAN is to continue until at least half of Global Services, or about 150,000 workers, have been cut from the U.S. division. Last week's LEAN meetings were quite specifically to find and identify common and repetitive work now being done that could be automated or moved offshore, and to find work Global Services is doing that it should not be doing at all. This latter part is with the idea that once extraneous work is eliminated, it will be easier to move the rest offshore.
All this is supposed to happen by the end of 2007, by the way, at which point, IBM will also freeze its U.S. pension plan.
Source:
I, Cringely
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