It's raining jobs for IT professionals (India)

[OhioChick]

New Delhi, January 21, 2007

It rained jobs for IT professionals with the country's top five software firms alone adding over 23,200 employees to their payrolls in the last quarter of 2006, while taking their total headcount to near 2,92,000.

The fabulous five of Indian IT space - TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and HCL Technologies - hired a total of 23,265 people in the three-month period that ended on December 31, with TCS coming out with highest number of additions at 7,835.

The collective employee strength of the country's five biggest IT firms at the end of October-December quarter stood at 2,91,830.

The robust hiring momentum has virtually shrugged off the concerns related to soaring wages eating into the company's profitability as all the five companies have reported impressive financial results for the quarter ended December 30, experts feel.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1905920,00020020.htm

[Spinzonner]

1. Perhaps they've also adopted

American corporate accounting practices

[MADem]

2. Will the future hold their importing US workers into the country to man those call desks at a cut

rate wage????

[aquart]

3. How nice.

I find I am not a globalist. I want American jobs in America.

[peacetalksforall]

4. Unanswered question - why do people think and say we are superior

to other people on the planet - when the truth of our predicament includes situations where:

. our jobs are shipped out and away from us to make ceo's and stockholders thrilled
. our technological genious is given and sold out from under us by the likes of Dick Cheney and his friends and sponsors.
. giving and selling our technological genious makes other countries superior to us.
. we torment and torture people in secret at secret locations with secret Leer jets flying them all around the planet with fuel stops in partner countries - we convince others to participate in the torment and torture (or we pay them to participate by fueling us on their soil and we pay with money from the 4.3 trillion missing money from the DOD budget).
. we deny rights - we hold people without representation for thousands of days
. we support spying on ourselves so that every penny, thought, word, act is tracked and recorded in a secret database for access by secret users - in other words, we condone and approve a total lack of privacy.
. we create, maintain, and plan wars with many deaths
. we don't take care of our own people through disasters - in fact we collaborate to kill more than natural.
. we have millions who are hungry, uninsured, homeless, living worse than any one person in Europe.

And most of this is in total opposition to our Constitution which we valued when we were kids.

[lligrd]

5. I Have Been Asking The Same Question

It really gets to me when people put off anything we do wrong by saying, "America, is still the greatest nation in the world." I have taken to asking them, why? I love my country but I do not like what it is becoming and I am not so blinded by my love for it that I can't see its imperfections. We are falling behind much of the world in many areas.