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Immelt Adds Technology Jobs in U.S. as Outsourcing Is Shaved
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General Electric Co., once vilified in the U.S. for leadership in outsourcing jobs, is pulling more information-technology positions back in-house.
Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt has said GE will add more than 15,000 jobs in the three years through December. About 1,100 will be just outside Detroit in a center for information technology, a field emblematic of outsourcing. So far, GE has hired about 660 people in Michigan, a state that led the nation in jobless rates, making it a symbol of U.S. industrial decline.