https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/27/ibm_cuts_jobs_in_us/
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@dg I believe the facts around IBM don’t support your rehiring statement Let’s look at the IRS 5500 data Not one year did employee population go back up
2012 = 106,975 IBM USA employees
2013 = 102,971
2014 = 102,242
2015 = 91,726
2016 = 84,982
2017 = 81,703
2018 = 78,737
2019 = 73,105
2020 = 69,696
2021 = 64,315
2022 = 54,151
2023 = 51,708
2024 = 42,700 (note this is an estimate)
2025 = 30,000 (again this is an estimate)
If American jobs having been moving to India for the past 20+ years how are there any jobs left to move to India?
Spoiler alert, companies end up hiring Americans again to get work done. That new job eventually shows up on a report to outsource again. cycle repeats over and over.
We shouldn’t be surprised by this. After Arvind Krishna became CEO it was inevitable. It’s just sooner than I expected.