http://www.itworld.com/taxonomy/term/3670/all xx http://www.itworld.com/business/65077/union-says-ibm-may-cut-4000-us-jobs-shift-work-india IBM may be getting set to make its largest single workforce reduction thus far this year, according to the Alliance@IBM employee union, which says it has heard that the cutbacks will affect about 4,000 U.S. workers at IBM's Global Business Services unit. http://www.itworld.com/business/65077/union-says-ibm-may-cut-4000-us-jobs-shift-work-india#comments Business News IBM IBM Global Services layoff outsourcing Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:40:58 -0400 ITworld staff 65077 at http://www.itworld.com http://www.itworld.com/management-amp-strategy/59632/offshoring-outsourcing-2009-what-does-future-hold IT outsourcing providers were largely unscathed by the economic downturn throughout much of 2008. But by the end of the year CIOs were too distracted by the economic destruction surround them to do any outsourcing deals. That's all poised to change in 2009. The only problem is, that may be bad news for both IT services providers and their IT leader customers. http://www.itworld.com/management-amp-strategy/59632/offshoring-outsourcing-2009-what-does-future-hold#comments IT management/strategy Feature Accenture EDS IBM Global Services IT services outsourcing Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:51:06 -0500 ITworld staff 59632 at http://www.itworld.com