IHG has just laid of a number of US based IT team members from the Reservations and Customer Care teams. From what I understand other departments (Network Operations, Server Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, etc) IT team members in the US have also been laid off.
This is all in an effort to save 10 cents and outsource and off shore jobs. I would never recommend that anyone in the US works for this huge corporation. They do not care about you and once they get what they want from you, they will send your position overseas.