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  • Want to Keep Your Job? Move to India

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    By MainStreet.com, on Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:29am PST

    Mixed feelings swirl around IBM’s recent employment program, called Project Match, which grants some laid off North American employees the chance to transfer to IBM’s offices in lower-income countries like India, Nigeria, Brazil, the Czech Republic and China and earn local wages.  The news begs the question, Is it worth speaking to my boss about moving to a lower-cost region and earning a smaller salary, be it India or even North Carolina?

    In times like these, some career experts say this may be a creative strategy to try to hedge losing your 9 to 5.  IBM is also offering to help pay for employers’ visas and for the relocation costs.

    “Sounds like the best of both worlds,”

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