According to ComputerWorld, IBM has stopped reporting its U.S. employee headcount. The company, which is the largest U.S. technology employer, will report only global headcount numbers in the future. This will make it difficult to track the continuing trend of outsourcing.
According to the ComputerWorld article:
Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology, said the workforce data is critical to helping policymakers understand the dynamics of offshoring. "By hiding its offshoring, IBM is doing a disservice to America -- through omission the company is providing misleading labor market signals and information to policymakers," Hira said.
IBM is trying to convince the government to allocate funds and establish policies that would help increase the number of STEM (or science, technology, engineering and math) graduates in the U.S., and it's also calling on Washington to raise the cap on H-1B visas, said Hira. "Yet at the same time," he added, "IBM is actually decreasing its demand of that same labor." (through outsourcing)
Hira also argues that the shift overseas makes clear how critical the tax deferral on foreign profits is to IBM's bottom line and why the company is opposing President Barack Obama's "proposal to end the tax breaks that encourage firms to move American jobs overseas," he said.
Full article:
http://www.computerworld.com/...
If you look at the IBM employment website, you will see they are staffing in India, and Brazil, and not so much in the U.S.