Even as it proceeds with layoffs of up to 13,000 workers in Europe and the United States, I.B.M. plans to increase its payroll in India this year by more than 14,000 workers, according to an internal company document.
Those numbers are telling evidence of the continuing globalization of work and the migration of some skilled jobs to low-wage countries like India. And I.B.M., the world's largest information technology company, is something of a corporate laboratory that highlights the trend. Its actions inform the worries and policy debate that surround the rise of a global labor force in science, engineering and other fields that require advanced education. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia Graphic I.B.M. Employees
To critics, I.B.M. is a leading example of the corporate strategy of shopping the globe for the cheapest labor in a single-minded pursuit of profits, to the detriment of wages, benefits and job security here and in other developed countries. The company announced last month that it would cut 10,000 to 13,000 jobs, about a quarter of them in the United States and the bulk of the rest in Western Europe.
"I.B.M. is really pushing this offshore outsourcing to relentlessly cut costs and to export skilled jobs abroad," said Marcus Courtney, president of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, or WashTech, a group that seeks to unionize such workers. "The winners are the richest corporations in the world, and American workers lose."
WashTech, based in Washington State, gave the I.B.M. document on Indian employment to The New York Times. It is labeled "I.B.M. Confidential" and dated April 2005. An I.B.M. employee concerned about the shifting of jobs abroad provided the document to WashTech.
I.B.M. declined to comment on the document or the numbers in it, other than to say that there are many documents, charts and projections generated within the company.
But in an interview, Robert W. Moffat, an I.B.M. senior vice president, explained that the buildup in India was attributable to surging demand for technology services in the thriving Indian economy and the opportunity to tap the many skilled Indian software engineers to work on projects around the world.
Lower trade barriers and cheaper telecommunications and computing ability help allow a distant labor force to work on technology projects, he said.
Mr. Moffat said I.B.M. was making the shift from a classic multinational corporation with separate businesses in many different countries to a truly worldwide company whose work can be divided and parceled out to the most efficient locations.
Cost is part of the calculation, Mr. Moffat noted, but typically not the most important consideration. "People who say this is simply labor arbitrage don't get it," he said. "It's mostly about skills."
And Mr. Moffat said that I.B.M. was hiring people around the world, including many in the United States, in new businesses that the company has marked for growth, even as it trims elsewhere. The company's overall employment in the United States has held steady for the last few years, at about 130,000.
To foster growth, I.B.M. is increasingly trying to help its client companies use information technology rather than just selling them the hardware and software. So I.B.M. researchers and programmers are more and more being put to work for customers, redesigning and automating tasks like procurement, accounting and customer service.
Yet those advanced services projects will be broken into pieces, with different experts in different countries handling a slice. This emerging globalization of operations, Mr. Moffat noted, does lead to a global labor market in certain fields. "You are no longer competing just with the guy down the street, but also with people around the world," he said.
Such competition, however, can become particularly harsh for workers in the West when they are competing against well-educated workers in low-
I'm glad you happened to mention the use of text based ads, I too use the "percieve" set of adblock rules. And thanks to google's adwords scheme, I purcahsed a custom build pc for a decent price from nsysonline a uk based firm, located near myself. Google understands that targeted advertising is necessary. I would not be interested in a US based firm that sold PCs, bu since nsys were based in Berkshire, the advert was actually useful. Also please let me know if you do take up that offer.
War Of The Worlds was set in Eastern England, now look at the Speilberg film. A typical American family coping with the crisis was not what Wells had in mind
Slashdot Mirror
I'm sure the implementation would be a little more secure than requiring the username/password "fbi/fbi"
FBI agent 1: Damn! Some guy on slashdot just guessed the password!
FBI agent 2: Sonuvva! Quick change it to CIA/CIA!
Yeah, but a least when it does, we'll be able to buy the soundtrack for our iPods
It probably has something to do with the mozilla store, pethaps they have started to mass produce firefox plushie toys.
Just like the band in Hitchikers guide then!
Now that was how Pink Floyd should have played.
It's a rather sad story, Gunpei Yoko died in a car crasha ayear after being disgraced into leaving nintendo.
How the hell can you patent the ability to charge money in exchange for services!
Surely thats equivelent to patenting capitalism!
Dude I was being sarcastic
I'm trying to look at your screenshot, but IE6 doesn't even say there's a picture there, what the fuck is png, everyone knows pictures are .jpg!
I agree, according to them my website, http://winckle.cliche-host.net/ is pornographic, despite merely being a place where I store my photoshops.
(User agent says it is Mozilla/4.0)
Someone beat you to it i'm afraid
The price problem could well be universal but in the UK, the games cost 40 sterling!
I mean other then checking their database of registered windows users and comparing it to the computer
hmm I wonder how...
Fianlly, an excuse to buy that 7800 GTX!
According to STIV they use an apple 2 and a qauint keyboard
By STEVE LOHR
Published: June 24, 2005
Even as it proceeds with layoffs of up to 13,000 workers in Europe and the United States, I.B.M. plans to increase its payroll in India this year by more than 14,000 workers, according to an internal company document.
Those numbers are telling evidence of the continuing globalization of work and the migration of some skilled jobs to low-wage countries like India. And I.B.M., the world's largest information technology company, is something of a corporate laboratory that highlights the trend. Its actions inform the worries and policy debate that surround the rise of a global labor force in science, engineering and other fields that require advanced education.
Skip to next paragraph Multimedia
Graphic
I.B.M. Employees
To critics, I.B.M. is a leading example of the corporate strategy of shopping the globe for the cheapest labor in a single-minded pursuit of profits, to the detriment of wages, benefits and job security here and in other developed countries. The company announced last month that it would cut 10,000 to 13,000 jobs, about a quarter of them in the United States and the bulk of the rest in Western Europe.
"I.B.M. is really pushing this offshore outsourcing to relentlessly cut costs and to export skilled jobs abroad," said Marcus Courtney, president of the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, or WashTech, a group that seeks to unionize such workers. "The winners are the richest corporations in the world, and American workers lose."
WashTech, based in Washington State, gave the I.B.M. document on Indian employment to The New York Times. It is labeled "I.B.M. Confidential" and dated April 2005. An I.B.M. employee concerned about the shifting of jobs abroad provided the document to WashTech.
I.B.M. declined to comment on the document or the numbers in it, other than to say that there are many documents, charts and projections generated within the company.
But in an interview, Robert W. Moffat, an I.B.M. senior vice president, explained that the buildup in India was attributable to surging demand for technology services in the thriving Indian economy and the opportunity to tap the many skilled Indian software engineers to work on projects around the world.
Lower trade barriers and cheaper telecommunications and computing ability help allow a distant labor force to work on technology projects, he said.
Mr. Moffat said I.B.M. was making the shift from a classic multinational corporation with separate businesses in many different countries to a truly worldwide company whose work can be divided and parceled out to the most efficient locations.
Cost is part of the calculation, Mr. Moffat noted, but typically not the most important consideration. "People who say this is simply labor arbitrage don't get it," he said. "It's mostly about skills."
And Mr. Moffat said that I.B.M. was hiring people around the world, including many in the United States, in new businesses that the company has marked for growth, even as it trims elsewhere. The company's overall employment in the United States has held steady for the last few years, at about 130,000.
To foster growth, I.B.M. is increasingly trying to help its client companies use information technology rather than just selling them the hardware and software. So I.B.M. researchers and programmers are more and more being put to work for customers, redesigning and automating tasks like procurement, accounting and customer service.
Yet those advanced services projects will be broken into pieces, with different experts in different countries handling a slice. This emerging globalization of operations, Mr. Moffat noted, does lead to a global labor market in certain fields. "You are no longer competing just with the guy down the street, but also with people around the world," he said.
Such competition, however, can become particularly harsh for workers in the West when they are competing against well-educated workers in low-
the whole wiki will probably be repalced by "FR1ST PS0T"
This Malda guy next door has been unemployed for so long I don't think he's ever gonna get a job.
In merseyside England, and whilst he obviously dislikes the GTA series, he doesn't mind me playing them. I think that is very reasonable of him
In TNG yes, but in DS9 he was an engineer wasn't he?
matter include Montgomery Scott, Miles O'Brien and Geordi LaForge.
cool, let me know how your website gets along, and e-mail me if you have good experience hosting, i might purchase an account myself.
I'm glad you happened to mention the use of text based ads, I too use the "percieve" set of adblock rules. And thanks to google's adwords scheme, I purcahsed a custom build pc for a decent price from nsysonline a uk based firm, located near myself. Google understands that targeted advertising is necessary. I would not be interested in a US based firm that sold PCs, bu since nsys were based in Berkshire, the advert was actually useful. Also please let me know if you do take up that offer.
I agree with you, if only because of your amusing use of the word fuck.
War Of The Worlds was set in Eastern England, now look at the Speilberg film. A typical American family coping with the crisis was not what Wells had in mind