GM to hire 10,000 IT pros as it 'insources' work

07.09.2012
General Motors, which is insourcing the majority of its IT work, Friday said it is hiring 500 IT positions in Austin to staff a new "innovation center."

The announcement is part of far-reaching GM plan to hire as many as 10,000 IT workers worldwide over the next three to five years as the automaker takes work back from outsourcers, the company said.

Austin was picked to house one of several planned new centers because it "already has people with the skills GM is seeking," the company said. GM based that assertion on U.S. Labor Dept. data showing that employment in IT-related occupations at about 46,000 in the Austin area.

Alan Adler, a GM spokesman, said the company won't yet specify the number of centers it eventually hopes to open.

GM's IT reorganization is led by Randy Mott, a at Hewlett-Packard and Dell. Mott previously spent more than two decades at Wal-Mart in a number of IT roles, including CIO.

"We plan to rebalance the employment model over the next three years so that the majority of our IT work is done by GM employees focused on extending new capabilities that further enable our business," Mott said in a statement.