Electronic Data Systems(EDS) has
offered early retirement to 12,000 employees.
Workers in the US will have until Oct 30 to accept and the move
is the latest in a series of job cuts.
EDS
cut 5,000 jobs in 2003, and in 2004, its chief executive
announced that the company
would shed another 20,000 jobs.
EDS has been recruiting workers in low-cost countries, chiefly
India, where it has 20,000 workers while cutting jobs in the United
States and Europe.
