Re: Cut staff levels to zero for maximum profit with no costs!!
Start by cutting the hundreds of millions of $$ from the Execs salary
Sadly it isn't that simple. IBM is in the wrong business here. Cutting the fat cat salaries (and fatcatcount) would be entirely just, but they don't make much difference to the fact that outsourcing is about cost, not quality. Unless you're the world's cheapest (and thus crappest) provider, you're going to fight that company and lose.
Companies claim to outsource for reasons of efficiency as well as cost. That's never true, they outsource things that they simply cannot be arsed to do themselves, and they don't care if the resultant service is poor. IBM thought this market was a goldmine, and as they've found out, market prices are set by people with no standards or principles, using slaves, bots, or trained hamsters. And sadly for IBM shareholders, that means that even when the magic 80% of employees are offshored, they still won't make any money.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
