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IBM Adding Almost 19,000 Jobs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the on-the-upswing dept.

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.

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  1. Unfortunately by AresTheImpaler · · Score: 5, Funny
    Unfortunately, they will only hire lawyers...

    /me didn't read the article, going to do now....

  2. Linux consulting jobs by SteroidMan · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interesting, it appears most of the jobs are consulting related. Polish up your Linux skills boys and get those resumes up to date.

  3. Stop the outsourcing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They say about a third will be in North America.

    Stop outsourcing our great Indian jobs to North Americans!

  4. Weird wording of headline by gotr00t · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Is it really that hard to say 18,800 jobs in the headline, as opposed to writing the word "almost?" I believe that saying 19,000 does not increase the effect of the headline any, using up some extra characters and making it sound like a marketing gimmick more than anything else.

    As a quote goes on bash.org: " There was a 23% drop in temperature. That's almost 25%! ... That was one of the most worthless comments I've ever heard."

  5. Re:Still sounds kinda grim. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, the original poster is playing hype games. It was under 10,000 US jobs that have been lost.

  6. Re:Are These Outsourced Or Here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    so not only did he not RTFA, he did not read the summary.

    it's an all new low.

    next time, i won't even bother reading the topic.

  7. Less than it appears by ToasterTester · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IBM continues to layoff people, just a few months back they dumped around 4600. They mainly use contractors so they pay bad, no benefits, sick days, and on and on. They just bought a large outsourcing company in India. They keep cutting the retirement programs, stock purchase program and so on. Many they bring on are ITS a employee who is only allowed to work two years for company them have to leave. They are told they can go full time during the two years, but there are huge barriors they make it near impossible. IBM has turned into a services company and most of the services employees are contractors they treat like dirt. The managers make it very clear we are full-time you are contractor dirty. IBM isn't the company they once were.