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Article: Some Ford contract jobs will be moved in-house.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 7, 2001
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Ford Motor Co., trying to prevent what it feels is a technology brain drain while juggling its larger, ongoing cost-cutting plan, is converting a thousand or more information-technology contract workers into full-time Ford employees. In the process, it will also get rid of hundreds of technology contract jobs.
Ford has roughly 5,000 information-technology workers who handle duties like data storage, e-commerce projects and deciding what software and PCs the automaker needs. Approximately 60 percent to 70 percent of those IT workers are not Ford employees, even though they work at or near Ford offices. They are instead employed by large technology companies such ...