A shock for people working at IBM’s sprawling campus in northwest Rochester Tuesday, as IBM executives shared a decision with workers that hundreds of manufacturing jobs are moving to Guadalajara, Mexico.
IBM is a global computer giant with twelve research laboratories around the world and manufacturing and support plants and offices in dozens of countries. In recent years, there have been other such “resource actions” with the company shifting jobs to China, India or other parts of its “smarter planet.”
Scott Cook, an IBM spokesman based in Chicago, confirmed the Rochester cuts to KTTC NewsCenter and says the decisions announced Tuesday are simply about creating the “best possible infrastructure” for the company.
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