DMUK:
US technology giant IBM said Tuesday it would hire 25,000 people in the country over the next four years, a day before President-elect Donald Trump meets with tech industry leaders.
About 6,000 of those hirings will occur in 2017, IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty said in an opinion article published in the newspaper USA Today.
IBM, which has undertaken in recent years a restructuring of its activities, will invest $1 billion on employee training and development in the next four years, said the IBM president, chairman and CEO.
“We are hiring because the nature of work is evolving — and that is also why so many of these jobs remain hard to fill,” Rometty said, noting that many industries were being reshaped by data science and cloud computing.
I’m starting to get tired of all this winning – NOT!
Not to seem skeptical, but I just wonder…how many of those workers will be brought over from India or China?
“Come Watson; the games afoot!”
Who’d a thunk that electing a President who doesn’t hate the USA would pay such compounding dividends?
Look what happens when a “politician” actually means what he says.
It’s not just empty words on teleprompter anymore.
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore Toto.
I’d like to know where IBM has been donating it’s political cash for the last twenty years or so. I suspect that Trump will be looking closely at the H1-B visa program and others that bring in workers when companies can’t “find” qualified workers. You may find the program severely curtailed if it’s found that too may firms do a half assed search in order to bring in low paid foreign replacements (remember Disney). The Dems and GOP wouldn’t do anything proactive but Trump would in a second.