In our increasingly global economy, India is outsourcing work receive from companies in the United States and to Mexico, China, and . . . the United States. Chief among these technology services companies are Infosys and Wipro, whose legions of programmers work across the globe.
In a poetic reflection of outsourcing’s new face, Wipro’s chairman, Azim Premji, told Wall Street analysts this year that he was considering hubs in Idaho and Virginia, in addition to Georgia, to take advantage of American "states which are less developed." (India’s per capita income is less than $1,000 a year.)
For its part, Infosys is building a whole archipelago of back offices — in Mexico, the Czech Republic, Thailand and China, as well as low-cost regions of the United States.
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