IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs

cyngus writes "IBM has announced they will add 18,800 jobs worldwide in 2004. They say about a third will be in North America. I don't know how many they have added this year so far. After the new hires IBM will employ about 330,000 people worldwide." More good news for the unemployed techie. Although things are far from the halcyon days of dot-com yesteryear, it's good to see companies doing better.

Comments

Still sounds kinda grim.

[JVert]

Didn't they lay of 50,000 over the past 5 years?
So 50,000 american jobs leave. 18,000 jobs come back, but only 6,000 american? "Lift your chin up so I can punch you in the face."

Re:Still sounds kinda grim.

[JVert]

tehehehe.....

Go get your own major corporation

[Pharmboy]

You Americans are just a bunch of selfish assholes (and I mean in general ok, I have American friends and I don't think everyone in the US is like this but it is a general sentiment)

Yea yea yea, get your own IBM. We already broke this one in, and it wasn't easy. With all the anti-trust suits in the 80s, the DOS boondogle that created Microsoft, lack of software for OS/2. Hell, we FINALLY got them house trained, and you want to take them away? It took half a century to get them here, embracing open source, contributing to the community, beating up SCO after it pushed us down in the school yard...

We loved them back when they were as evil as any other company, but its easy to love them now. So yes, we are selfish about it, for good reason. Maybe you should instead vote for your government to lower taxes and offer tax incentives for companies to be created and grow in your OWN country, instead of laying claim to our companies. ;)

Re:Are these new jobs?

[Reteo Varala]

Good. Unions are, in my opinion, the #1 reason that labor in other countries are so cheap; once the purpose of a union is complete (safe and fair work environment), they don't stop there. They never stop demanding. Unions put companies out of business, and thus comes loss of jobs.