Company: IBM
Date: 2010-11-22
Overall rating: 3/5
Employment status: current

Globalization - What's In It for the Employee
Pros: Excellent exposure to global culture, business issues and challenges. 

Flexibility of work location. 

Interesting and challenging work. 

Smart, dedicated staff that really want to get the job done right and are willing to go all out to do it.
Cons: Way to many metrics and measurements - need to focus on core issues. 

Labor arbitrage is all it's about today, with the belief that you can get someone for the 1/2 the price to deliver the same business value.  There is veiled attempt to hide the arbitrage as 'globalization', but the execution of that globalization is terrible.  Processes are broken, turn-over of staff in growth markets causes inordinate amounts of issues and costs the business money. Staff in mature markets don't buy into the globalization effort as the case for their careers and growth is non-existent.  There are lots of words from the executive team, but no tangible action.  Even the growth market employees leave because they don't see what's in it for them as the arbitrage regularly chases the next cheapest source of labor.