GM to hire 10K IT workers, cut outsourcing
Summary: General Motors will be upping its IT capabilities and aims to perform 90 percent of all its IT work in-house by hiring some 10,000 tech professionals in the next 3 to 5 years.
General Motors (GM) will look to hire about 10,000 IT workers worldwide over the next 3 to 5 years as it aims to "rebalance" its employment model and work to conduct 90 percent of all tech projects in-house by then.
The automobile company said in a statement last Friday it is looking to hire up to 500 new employees in Texas, United States, for its IT innovation center which opened last week. Positions it is looking to fill include software developer, project managers, databvase experts, business analysts and other IT professionals, it revealed.
"We want IT to keep up with the imagination of our GM business partners, and to do that, we plan to rebalance the employment model over the next three years so that the majority of our IT work is done by GM employees focused on extending new capabilities that further enable our business, said Randy Mott, the company's CIO, in the statement.
This 500 positions is part of a wider recruitment effort to bolster its internal IT capabilities, which is still being crafted, according to Mott in a separate report by Bloomberg Businessweek. Asked if he would be hiring more than 10,000 workers, he said it would be within "that range but less than that".
He added the carmaker plans to bring most of its IT work in-house, from 10 percent currently to 90 percent in the next few years.
Computerworld stated in its report last Friday GM was used to relying heavily on outsourcing companies to run its global IT for several years. Electronic Data System (EDS), which was once owned by GM before being spun off and acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2008, was one of the main beneficiaries of its outsourcing policy, the report noted.
Kick off your day with ZDNet's daily email newsletter. It's the freshest tech news and opinion, served hot. Get it.
Talkback
GM to hire 10K IT workers, cut outsourcing
Careful
Also, where do you get that? According to the cited reports, at least 500 of these positions are in Austin, TX. No other places were mentioned. Indeed, since the article describes 90% of GM's IT currently being outsourced, it is likely that many of these positions will be in the U.S. if the idea is to move towards insourced IT.
Bigotry maybe, but could be hint of truth.
and yet politicians, then or now, say
With offshoring, jobs vanish and wages drop down as well... yet college costs do not.
Adding in these and others factors, like those I added below, all college students deserve a full refund... sorry for the controversy but i will add detail later... after all, if we want a level playing field then we don't stack the odds...
Re: "We need more educated people. Companies offshore due to cost..."
Nothing stopping them
There is nothing stopping them, sure, but there is nothing in the article indicating that this is what GM intends to do.
Really, I'm amazed how much people are reading into this article that simply isn't there.
They have multiple data centers across USA>
just more bull
and at us taxpayers' expense
hmmm
2. Article obfuscates- 500 in US and 9500 elsewhere, so what does "offshoring" mea
3. Why should companies that offshore get subsidy and bailout and other entitlement from taxpayers when offshoring hurt them followed by gm being hurt as a result of doing it?
No
People here are reading waaaay too much into this article. Way more than it actually states, in any case.
Outsourcing and offshoring have passed their peak
Results
That said, companies are learning that there's a time to outsource, and a time not to. Just as outsourcing isn't always wrong, neither is it always right.
Author gave sources...
Mobile App Development