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IBM Touts Trump-Pleasing Hiring Plans While Firing Thousands

Big Blue pledged to hire 25,000 workers over four years. It wasn't long before employees were accusing the company's CEO of hypocrisy.
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IBM Touting Hypocritical Hiring Plans?

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On the eve of a summit last month between technology executives and then President-elect Donald Trump, IBM Chief Executive Officer Ginni Rometty publicly pledged to hire about 25,000 U.S. workers and spend $1 billion on training over the next four years.

She didn't mention that International Business Machines Corp. was also firing workers and sending many of the jobs overseas.