"In return, the state offered the company nearly $30 million in performance-based tax incentives, tens of millions more in other public funds, and $500,000-per-year 'lease assistance' payments for its downtown offices in Baton Rouge."
IBM sure knows how to fleece anyone they do business with, that's for sure.
https://www.businessreport.com/article/tech-workers-ibm-shortfall-reflects-struggling-industry
IBM’s failure to fulfill its promise of creating 800 jobs this year is an unsurprising reflection of a local technology sector that struggles to recruit and retain workers, experts and industry leaders say.
The company has so far created 572 jobs, well short of its goal. But the Gov. John Bel Edwards administration extended the deal for two more years, giving IBM another chance to meet the 800-job mark. << Same crap went on in Columbia, MO.
I know people who put in for transfers down to Baton Rouge and were denied so I think their shortfall is a total scam. IBM never had that many openings down there to begin with. They scam the city/state to get in on the cheap. The problem is the cites keep falling for it. Wake up, IBM is out to F your city inside out. It's time to call IBM out on these shenanigans.