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IBM CEO: We Listen to What Israel and Saudi Arabia Consider “Correct Behavior” | IBM employees questioned the company’s ties to the Israeli military. CEO Arvind Krishna’s answer raised even more concerns.
IBM employees questioned the company’s ties to the Israeli military. CEO Arvind Krishna’s answer raised even more concerns.
For many workers, the question of where IBM might draw the line with foreign governments is particularly fraught given the company’s grim track record of selling computers and services to both apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany. According to records of the presentation reviewed by The Intercept, Krishna told employees that IBM’s foreign business wouldn’t be shaped by the company’s own values or humanitarian guidelines. Like its major rivals, IBM says its business practices are constrained by various human rights commitments, principles that in theory ask the company to avoid harm in the pursuit of profit.
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