"We have thousands of open positions at any given moment, and we intend to hire about 25,000 professionals in the next four years in the United States," Rometty said in a USA Today editorial published on Tuesday afternoon. IBM spokesman Adam Pratt declined to say how that hiring might be offset by staff reductions or disclose how many people IBM employs in the United States. “We expect to end 2016 with our U.S. workforce about the same size as it was at the beginning of the year.