Does IBM Create Or Destroy Work In The US?

Just weeks ago, on the eve of the meeting held between Donald Trump and the technology industry, the CEO of IBM, Ginni Rometty, he announced intentions to create about 25,000 jobs and invest 1,000 million in programs training. The deadline for such measures? Four years, which seems a very clear bet to grow the company and improve the working conditions of its employees.

This measure could undoubtedly fall within the job creation promotion policies announced by Trump when he was still president-elect. However, Bloomberg dedicated an article to discuss the latest HR operations carried out by the blue giant, which makes Rometty plans are, at least, questioned or branded as opportunists.

And, as workers and outsiders cited by Bloomberg point out, IBM has recently carried out a lot of staff cuts, and in addition has relocated in Asia and Eastern Europe part of the jobs that, until that moment, were developing in the United States. The company does not disclose numbers, and says job relocation is related to the importance of those markets for the company, and merely states that jobs in the company are significantly more stable than the industry average technological. However, it must be borne in mind that this is precisely one of the demons for Donald Trump, who has already faced some companies that locate their production outside the United States, threatening a tariff policy that would greatly complicate their operations in American soil.

As for layoffs carried out by IBM in recent times, the sources cited in the article claim that they are probably measured in thousands. Only in 2016, the company carried out three rounds of layoffs. So far this year there have been new notifications for the dismissal of employees of the company. This has also given rise to an uncertain environment in which current employees, especially those related to the service area (the one who has suffered most from these cuts and relocations), are already preparing for further rounds of layoffs along this year.