IBM to Slash 5,000 Services Jobs in United States
Reuters | 25 Mar 2009

IBM will cut about 5,000 jobs in the United States, adding to similarly large cuts in the
past few months, sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters Wednesday.



The job cuts will account for over 4 percent of IBM's U.S. workforce, which totaled
around 115,000 at the end of 2008. The sources, who were not authorized to speak
publicly on the issue, said the cuts will mostly be in IBM's global services business, which
includes outsourcing and consulting services.

IBM, which now earns around two-thirds of its revenue from outside the United States,
has been expanding its workforce in emerging markets like India and China...

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