IBM to increase staff by 15,000

IBM WILL hire 15,000 new employees — 50% more than originally planned — in areas like software and services because of a rebound in the economy, a top executive said.

New York-based IBM, which has faced criticism for its plans to shift some US workers to cheaper locations such as India and China, will add about 4,500 net jobs in the US this year, according to IBM human resources senior vice president Randy MacDonald.

“We are going to hire more in the US than we shift overseas,” he said in an interview.