Dutch IBM arm cuts 240 jobs: FD
Thursday 20 September 2012
The Dutch arm of IBM is cutting its 4,200-strong workforce by 240 jobs, the Financieele Dagblad reports on Thursday, quoting company sources.
The job cuts, which will affect temporary and contract staff, are part of the company's Road Map 2015 programme which involves shifting work to India, the paper says.
Last week the FD reported that thousands of Dutch IT jobs are being lost through cutbacks and a shift to low-cost countries.
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This is not surprising, the plan was announced last year. Expect more jobs to be cut until the 2015. Most jobs will move to Asia or Middle east and only thing left will be sales, some localized marketing, executives and maybe some limited consulting but considering it's much cheaper to bring in consultants from India paid about 1000 euro a month, no wonder tech jobs are going.
By ExBlue | 22 September 2012 9:09 AMwell , if u can buy it for 1000 euro from india probably it is not that "high tech".
How about job cuts at IBM Switzerland? I know some really high tech stuff going on there?
By dork | 22 September 2012 11:08 AM@dork You weren't watching the news lately now were you? I mean the last 10 years or so. You need an update about product quality about China and India, Estonia etc. It's not the cheap toys, they mass-manifacture anymore. True, it's mostly outsourcing but know-how stays there when the freelance projects are delivered.
By joost | 22 September 2012 8:33 PM