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Judging from the context, I suspect it mean hiring former blue collar people to fill what would traditionally be professional roles (IT). Basically, they laid
by steverb 10y ago
Judging from the context, I suspect it mean hiring former blue collar people to fill what would traditionally be professional roles (IT).
Basically, they laid off a bunch of expensive, educated and experienced people and are now looking to backfill the areas they cut too deeply in with cheap labor that they can boot camp to a minimum level of proficiency and then charge the same prices for.
- tyingq 10y ago>with cheap labor that they can boot camp to a minimum level of proficiency That does indeed seem to be the case. There's a Huff Post article where IBM execs talk about their pilot program that's tied to this "new collar" business: According to an interview with an IBM official, “The objective is to prepare students for entry-level technology jobs paying around $40,000 a year"[1] [1]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/what-does-the-p-in-ptech-_b_6244690.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/what-does-the-p-in...