Microsoft expanding fast in India outsourcing– to double employees in India by 2006
Babu Ghanta
Sep. 26, 2005

Microsoft plans to augment its outsourcing operations from India.

The world’s largest software company plans to double its staff strength at its Indian centres in Hyderabad and Bangalore by March 2006, a top company official said late on Saturday.

"We aim to ramp up the strength at the India Development Centre (in Hyderabad) by another 1,000 professionals," Tess Field, Microsoft's head of human resources in India, said on the sidelines of a management convention.

The Hyderabad campus in Andhra Pradesh is the software maker's largest campus outside the United States and provides product development and support services.

The 28-acre (11 hectare) campus, which opened last November, also houses a global delivery centre and is part of a three-year, $400 million investment plan for India announced in 2002.

Microsoft also plans to double the headcount to around 1,000 staff members at its technology centre in premier software hub of Bangalore, Field said.

India's $17.2-billion software services industry employs about 1 million people. Exports of software and business services are forecast to grow 30 to 32 per cent in the year to March 2006, powered by the country's low-cost, IT-savvy and English-speaking workforce.

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