I believe that all of the jobs could be outsourced. IBM already positioned themselves for these layoffs last year.
I was in fact a fairly high-level sub-contracted employee working for IBM via an outsourcer. There are global corporations that can assume this workload while making IBM look much leaner to stock holders.
I personally left the outsourcer because I could see the writing on the wall. With IBM outsourcing all of the new work then, their employees knew that it was only a matter of time. It was evident that all of the North American work was being moved to off-shore. There is no way I can or will compete with 1.50 - 2$/hour.
It seems to me that IBM worked with different companies to setup contracts based on the IBM name. They then sub-contract to other companies in order to essentially get paid for "overseeing" the contract. Sounds like a sweet deal as a middle-man, but are the original clients affected? I'd say so. (Especially when the employee is me and I walk away from the deal because everyone is profiting off of my back except me.)
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I believe that all of the jobs could be outsourced. IBM already positioned themselves for these layoffs last year. I was in fact a fairly high-level sub-contracted employee working for IBM via an outsourcer. There are global corporations that can assume this workload while making IBM look much leaner to stock holders. I personally left the outsourcer because I could see the writing on the wall. With IBM outsourcing all of the new work then, their employees knew that it was only a matter of time. It was evident that all of the North American work was being moved to off-shore. There is no way I can or will compete with 1.50 - 2$/hour. It seems to me that IBM worked with different companies to setup contracts based on the IBM name. They then sub-contract to other companies in order to essentially get paid for "overseeing" the contract. Sounds like a sweet deal as a middle-man, but are the original clients affected? I'd say so. (Especially when the employee is me and I walk away from the deal because everyone is profiting off of my back except me.)