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    IBM unveils plan to hire 25,000 in US on eve of Trump meeting

    By AFP
    PUBLISHED: 19:10 EST, 13 December 2016 | UPDATED: 19:10 EST, 13 December 2016

    US technology giant IBM said Tuesday it would hire 25,000 people in the country over the next four years, a day before President-elect Donald Trump meets with tech industry leaders.

    About 6,000 of those hirings will occur in 2017, IBM chief executive Ginni Rometty said in an opinion article published in the newspaper USA Today.

    IBM, which has undertaken in recent years a restructuring of its activities, will invest $1 billion on employee training and development in the next four years, said the IBM president, chairman and CEO.


    IBM, which has undertaken in recent years a restructuring of its activities, will invest $1 billion on employee training and development in the next four years ©Ethan Miller (Getty/AFP/File)

    "We are hiring because the nature of work is evolving -- and that is also why so many of these jobs remain hard to fill," Rometty said, noting that many industries were being reshaped by data science and cloud computing.

    "Jobs are being created that demand new skills -- which in turn requires new approaches to education, training and recruiting," she said.

    "This is not about white collar vs. blue collar jobs, but about the 'new collar' jobs that employers in many industries demand, but which remain largely unfilled."

    Rometty is a member of Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum, a group of US business leaders focused on boosting economic growth and jobs.

    The IBM jobs investment news came before the highly anticipated meeting Wednesday of the Republican property tycoon-turned-next US president and the leaders of several major technology companies.

    Among those expected to attend are Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Apple's Tim Cook, Satya Nadella of Microsoft, Larry Page of Alphabet (Google) and Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX, according to US media.

    Trump is expected to push them to create jobs after saying last week that he would like Apple -- whose coveted iPhones are made in China -- to open a large factory in the United States.

    But he will be stepping into hostile territory. The tech sector overwhelmingly supported the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton during this year's election campaign and has expressed fear about the effect Trump's policies will have on the industry.

    The sole notable exception is the controversial PayPal co-founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel, currently a member of Trump's transition team.

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    Thank you so much for this article, Jean!! I heard a blip about this on the news earlier today and tried to find a report or article and came up empty! Daily Mall covered it, well, good for them!! They know what's important.

    That is fantastic. You know when I was starting my career, there were about 100 companies we all dreamed to work for one day and of course IBM, the Big Blue, was Number One. They had a dress code, a look, a style ... that was their own. Unbelievable company in those days. Maybe they'll have a big comeback here in the United States. Sounds like they're anxious to come home.

    THANK YOU IBM!! THANK YOU DONALD J TRUMP FOR BRINGING 'EM BACK TO AMERICA!!

    This is so exciting. And what are the poor DemoQuacks doing? Whining about the Russians hacking the DNC emails because they didn't have enough money, yes that's what they said, to have proper security software on their DNC computers. Of course, the RNC did which is why the couldn't hack their emails.

    Plus, and no one has mentioned this, so I will, the reason there were no "goodies" on the Republicans they did hack, private not RNC, pertaining to Trump is because Donald Trump doesn't do emails. He's never sent or received one. He uses the telephone, not email. So there was nothing to leak to WikiLeaks on Trump.

    LOL!!! Trump, always ahead of the curve.
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