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    • IBM gearing up to lay off over 100000 American employees?

    By Darren Murph | May 5, 2007

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    We’ll admit, even we’re a bit frightened that immensely intelligent humanoid bots may one day oust us from these seats, but according to whispers going around at IBM’s HQ, something just as momentous could be going down as early as this year. Shortly after Lenovo told 1,400 of its US-based employees to politely hop off the payroll, IBM’s LEAN plan could call for over 100,000 American workers to be canned in favor of (surprise, surprise) hiring overseas. Already, the firm has laid off 1,300 employees in 2007, but according to a recent report, an ongoing “planning meeting” for how to handle the company’s Global Services could eventually axe “up to 150,000 US jobs” while hiring cheaper labor in China and India. Interestingly, this news could actually be sweet music to Wall Street, at least in the short term, but we can’t imagine how this logistical nightmare will ever bode well for Big Blue’s future.

     

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