Bangalore: Software firm Infosys plans to hire about 1,000 people in the U.S. in the next 12 to 18 months.
"We believe business will be there if we add capabilities, more services and solutions to our portfolio and increase the business volume with the existing customers - that`s how we see growth coming to our business," Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan said.
Gopalakrishnan, who is currently in Seattle for Microsoft`s CEO Summit this week, said that the company plans to add more than 100 new employees as part of a big US expansion in anticipation of growth resuming in 2010. Already, 14,000 of the company`s 1,04,000 employees are based in the U.S.
"India is better placed than U.S. to tide over economic crisis," Gopalakrishna said, adding, "I hope it is sustained and picks up," he said in an interview with a local media in Seattle. "India has also witnessed a 3 percent dip in growth from 8-9 percent to 5-6 percent. On the positive side it`s still 5 to 6 percent growth, but the decline is similar," Gopalakrishna added.
Gopalakrishnan clearly sees the dangers in industry consolidation and in changes in the nature of outsourcing, with more businesses taking the same tack as they have with their internal IT organizations by looking at business process applicability rather than discrete technical capability.
Source:
http://siliconindia.com/shownews/Infosys_to_hire_1000_people_in_US-nid-57037.htm
"We believe business will be there if we add capabilities, more services and solutions to our portfolio and increase the business volume with the existing customers - that`s how we see growth coming to our business," Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan said.
Gopalakrishnan, who is currently in Seattle for Microsoft`s CEO Summit this week, said that the company plans to add more than 100 new employees as part of a big US expansion in anticipation of growth resuming in 2010. Already, 14,000 of the company`s 1,04,000 employees are based in the U.S.
"India is better placed than U.S. to tide over economic crisis," Gopalakrishna said, adding, "I hope it is sustained and picks up," he said in an interview with a local media in Seattle. "India has also witnessed a 3 percent dip in growth from 8-9 percent to 5-6 percent. On the positive side it`s still 5 to 6 percent growth, but the decline is similar," Gopalakrishna added.
Gopalakrishnan clearly sees the dangers in industry consolidation and in changes in the nature of outsourcing, with more businesses taking the same tack as they have with their internal IT organizations by looking at business process applicability rather than discrete technical capability.
Source:
http://siliconindia.com/shownews/Infosys_to_hire_1000_people_in_US-nid-57037.htm
