Indian Outsourcers Try to Blunt U.S. Backlash

[OhioChick]

June 15, 2011, 2:42 PM IST

Indian technology outsourcers have recently highlighted their U.S. hiring plans in a bid to show they are creating jobs in the country, not stealing them. This, they hope, will help counter an intensifying backlash in the U.S. against outsourcing.

India’s largest outsourcing company Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Tuesday said it planned to hire more than 1,200 staff in the U.S. this fiscal year through March 2012, a marginal increase from the 1,150 people it hired there last year.

And last week, India’s second-largest software exporter Infosys Technologies Ltd. said it planned to hire 1,500 Americans this year, up from about 800 last year.

Combined, the two outsourcers aim to add more than 100,000 staff worldwide in this year. The global figure makes the U.S. headcount plans look somewhat paltry, especially as that market is the source of more than half their revenue.

More: http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/06/15/indian-outsourcers-try-to-blunt-u-s-backlash/

[provis99]

1. and how many tens of thousands of American jobs have they destroyed?

Indian companies claiming they create jobs in America is as deceitful as George Bush claiming he created jobs in America.

[ChromeFoundry]

2. Creating jobs? Yeah, right...

[JDPriestly]

3. As I wrote earlier on DU, I really was flabbergasted when my husband

brought home dill pickles, yes, dill pickles, stating on the label, "Made in India."

Our imports from and outsourcing to India is just too extreme. It is ridiculous. Every time we import something we could make for ourselves, we weaken ourselves. The long term repercussions not just for our economy for our character as Americans will be devastating.

I worry for my grandchildren. What will life be like for them? Will they have any opportunities at all?

No one seems to be thinking about that.

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[JDPriestly]

5. Nations have a right to protect their interests including their economic

interests. India is acting like a job thief.

Americans should keep the work right here in America. Indian dill pickles indeed. Indian curry is fine to import, but when Indians start making dill pickles it is just an aggressive attempt to steal a market.