GM to Hire 3,000 Hewlett-Packard IT Employees

General Motors Co., which is bringing most of its information technology work in-house, has agreed to hire 3,000 Hewlett-Packard Co. employees who have been providing IT services to the automaker.

Most of the H-P workers will transfer to GM over the next six months.

The carmaker unveiled a plan in July to hire about 10,000 employees as it boosts the proportion of its IT work done internally to 90% by 2015 from 10% now. Chief Information Officer Randy Mott, who joined GM from H-P in February, says hiring the tech company's staffers will accelerate that shift.

H-P, which acquired GM's former Electronic Data Systems Corp. in 2008, currently handles much of the carmaker's IT work.

GM has purchased a huge suite of H-P software and negotiated new multi-year contracts with the supplier for software and project services. The parties decline to discuss the terms.