Where are the IBM jobs nowadays?

Back in the day when I was with IBM, the major centers for employment in the US (to my knowledge) were RTP, Austin (including Tivoli), Poughkeepsie, San Jose, Somers and Armonk. Add in Yorktown Heights and Hawthorne for the research jobs, and Boulder was a major outsourcing site (GTS) at the time. R&D occurs all over the place of course, but for the most part the other IBM offices around the US were either sales offices or GTS delivery centers (outsourcing sites with data centers). Remote work was in play at the time, so those sales offices consisted of empty communal desks with telephones and network receptacles.

What I'm wondering is...what has changed since that time? Are there still thousands of people for example driving into RTP or Austin every morning? Or has IBM transformed into a field of empty offices with a smattering of remote workers (who haven't gotten the axe yet)? Just curious.

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Low cost geographies. As low cost geographies become more expensive they just shift. Hyderabad, India and Bangalore, India were the places however their costs have soared so now they are moving a lot of hiring to the newer Kochi, India lab. Costa Rica is also another area they are building in. Basically, the snake eating it's tail as the pursuit to curtail costs over revenue growth continues.

As IBM continues to restructure away from historical established “infrastructure” and into Consulting and SW services, you can use Kyndryl’s model to estimate where IBM is heading. When Kyndryl was spun off, they acknowledged that their go to model for the USA was 8-12% worldwide population onshore (remember for services) and 15-20% near shore. The near shore was essentially located in the western hemisphere for time zone purposes. Everything else was offshored to very low labor cost countries regardless of time zone. Manufacturing, sales, and TSS would not be bound by these estimates. THUS POK would be exempt, and the same for TSS and sales.

Kochi, India

Poughkeepsie is a ghost town, most people who can WFH, no one is paying attention to the RTO nonsense, even the managers. People aren't going to waste their time, money, and pollute the environment commuting to that dump. This is why IBM worked so hard to develop mobile technology.

Brazil is the new darling for tech jobs.

Low cost countries

India

Mumbai, Costa Rico, Mexico City, and Bratislava

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