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IBM Now Has More Employees In India Than In the US (newsindiatimes.com)
New submitter Zorro shares a report from The New York Times (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source): Over the last decade, IBM has shifted its center of gravity halfway around the world to India, making it a high-tech example of the globalization trends that the Trump administration has railed against. Today, the company employs 130,000 people in India -- about one-third of its total work force, and more than in any other country. Their work spans the entire gamut of IBM's businesses, from managing the computing needs of global giants like AT&T and Shell to performing cutting-edge research in fields like visual search, artificial intelligence and computer vision for self-driving cars. One team is even working with the producers of Sesame Street to teach vocabulary to kindergartners in Atlanta.
The work in India has been vital to keeping down costs at IBM, which has posted 21 consecutive quarters of revenue declines as it has struggled to refashion its main business of supplying tech services to corporations and governments. The company's employment in India has nearly doubled since 2007, even as its work force in the United States has shrunk through waves of layoffs and buyouts. Although IBM refuses to disclose exact numbers, outsiders estimate that it employs well under 100,000 people at its American offices now, down from 130,000 in 2007. Depending on the job, the salaries paid to Indian workers are one-half to one-fifth those paid to Americans, according to data posted by the research firm Glassdoor.
The work in India has been vital to keeping down costs at IBM, which has posted 21 consecutive quarters of revenue declines as it has struggled to refashion its main business of supplying tech services to corporations and governments. The company's employment in India has nearly doubled since 2007, even as its work force in the United States has shrunk through waves of layoffs and buyouts. Although IBM refuses to disclose exact numbers, outsiders estimate that it employs well under 100,000 people at its American offices now, down from 130,000 in 2007. Depending on the job, the salaries paid to Indian workers are one-half to one-fifth those paid to Americans, according to data posted by the research firm Glassdoor.
currently, India is starting to lose employee count since it is no longer a "low cost" supplier.
I have moderator points, but I can't find "+1 Math is Hard" in the list, so I'm commenting instead. It may be time to replace the batteries in your calculator, it thinks that there are 3 quarters in a year.
Ah... you seem to be miss-informed about IBM these days.
Once upon a time that would have been true, these days IBM specialises in not even delivering a solution in the first place, and still somehow keeping a bit pile of the money involved.
Then they let things cool off for a year or so, and have another dig at the gravy trough.
The usual formula seems to be that a project that could be done for $x by getting local companies to quite it is instead quietly contracted through a process only involving several of the 'big names' for $x*100, and then IBM is given the contract for 5 to 10 times that figure, and bollocks it up so badly it never ever works.
I think we call it progress and open government?
IBMs primary skill is a small group of nice suits who talk a very good talk and present a very good presentation, and then walk away never to be seen near that project every again.
Oh, and the fact that still, no one ever gets fires for buying IBM.
Case in point: The Phoenix payroll system the Canadian Government wasted millions upon millions on. Not just on the non-functional system itself, but on major staffing needed to manually process payroll so employees could actually get paid.
Actually, India's closest allie happens to be Russia and Iran. India is only close to the west for economics.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.