IBM cuts 1,440 - the outsourcing continues, Obama does nothing to stem the middle class jobs bleed (layoffs, business)

[KRAMERCAT]

As of Thursday night, the casualty total reached 1,440 across 20 work groups.

The trend is clear. IBM will over time continue to employ fewer and fewer people here as jobs are transitioned over there – wherever “there” is, Bratislava or New Delhi or Shanghai or Rio and points in between.


Another 45 IBM layoffs - Will the cuts stop? Nope :: The Skinny at WRAL Tech Wire

[Mach50]

IBM is also paying for this as many of their customers don't want to work with someone from "Bratislava or New Delhi or Shanghai or Rio and points in between."

The pendulum swings both ways in IT.