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IBM Now Has More Employees in India Than in the .s.
IBM employees collaborate in a casual work space at its new offices in Bangalore's Bhartiya Center of Information Technology.
Credit: Philippe Calia / The New York Times
IBM dominated the early decades of computing with inventions like the mainframe and the floppy disk. Its offices and factories, stretching from upstate New York to Silicon Valley, were hubs of American innovation long before Microsoft or Google came along.
But over the last decade, IBM has shifted its center of gravity halfway around the world to India, making it a high-tech example of the globalization trends that the Trump administration has railed against.
Today, the company employs 130,000 people in India — about one-third of its total work force, and more than in any other country.
From The New York Times
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