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This was the plan all along. Because IBM is a services company they actually make more money when they have lower quality employees. It is better to bill people
by bob33212 6y ago
This was the plan all along. Because IBM is a services company they actually make more money when they have lower quality employees. It is better to bill people out at 300/hour who are going to screw things up and make the project twice as long rather than bill people out at 500/hour when they are going to be able to finish early or scrap the project entirely because it was vaporware to begin with.
- dralley 6y agoIBM is in the process of spinning off the entire consulting / services side of the company so that IBM proper can focus on "hybrid cloud", so this theory makes zero sense. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/ibm-to-split-into-two-companies-by-the-end-of-2021/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/10/ibm-t...