Most Siemens software jobs moving east

[Judi Lynn]

Monday, February 16, 2004 · Last updated 9:32 a.m. PT

Most Siemens software jobs moving east

By S. SRINIVASAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

BANGALORE, India -- The German firm Siemens will move most of the 15,000 software programming jobs from its offices in the United States and Western Europe to India, China and Eastern Europe, a company official said Monday.

"Siemens has recognized that a huge amount of software development activity needs to be moved from high-cost countries to low-cost countries," said Anil R. Laud, managing director of Siemens Information Systems, the group's information technology subsidiary in India.

About 3,000 of the 30,000 software programmers that Siemens employs worldwide are already in India.

Laud declined to reveal the exact number of jobs to be relocated or how long the process would take.
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[tlcandie]

1. Bajeebus!!! How many more can this country take and not collapse?!

:cry:

EDIT: smiley face

[curlyred]

2. I guess that's 15,000 more jobs that need to be added to the list

of jobs the shrub claims his administration will add this year. Dang, he'd better get busy.

[hedda_foil]

3. Oops, there goes another talking point!

The latest "free trade" talking point is that German companies have moved a few production facilities here. I've heard it several times in the past week from guests on Lou Dobbs' show. (Dobbs, of course, doesn't buy it.) Guess that's not going to work for them.

[sadiesworld]

4. I caught a few minutes of Bears and Bullshit ...

this past weekend, they were wondering how the market will react to the millions of (US) jobs Bush will be creating this year. LOL.

[mhr]

5. Never, Never Forget That Bush Supports The Loss Of Good American Jobs.

eom

[sadiesworld]

6. I'm all for Lou Dobbs important work on this issue...

but if there is a US worker friendly piece of legislation that is being supported by virtually every dem and only a handful of repugs, he will use one of the repugs to highlight it.