GE Adds Tech Jobs in U.S., Shaves Outsourcing
By Rachel Layne and Jeff Green - Aug 7, 2011 10:01 PM MT

General Electric Co. (GE), once vilified in the U.S. for leadership in outsourcing jobs, is pulling more information-technology positions back in-house.

Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt has said GE will add more than 15,000 jobs in the three years through December. About 1,100 will be just outside Detroit in a center for information technology, a field emblematic of outsourcing. So far, GE has hired about 660 people in Michigan, a state that led the nation in jobless rates, making it a symbol of U.S. industrial decline.

“About 50 percent of the IT work was being done by non-GE employees,â€