Thread regarding IBM layoffs

A new kind of tech job

I wonder how many of those 1/3rd were replacing older workers who were RA'd?

"A new kind of tech job. The New York Times reports on the rise of what it calls a new kind of tech job, defined more by skills than a college degree. A number of companies, including International Business Machines Corp. and Microsoft Corp., are finding value in the role, funding tech training programs for the non-degreed and, in many cases, hiring the graduates. 'We need new approaches, or we’re going to leave more and more people behind in our economy,' said Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, tells the NYT. At an IBM West Virginia operations center nearly a third of the new hires working there have not had a four-year college degree."

https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2017/06/29/the-morning-download-amazon-whole-foods-deal-pressures-grocers-with-new-delivery-prowess/

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Perhaps also people without college degrees are less costly and have no student loan debt. Also, "skills" are often in the highly myopic view of HR "professionals."

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Indicative that al those smart but highly paid older workers have been, eh, dispensed with.

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What are these jobs? Engineers? Programmers? Third-world help desks? Of course there are jobs that don't require a college degree, but there are also jobs that do.

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