Global/United States recession and painful economic slowdown affects are heading towards India now: Over 50,000 IT professionals in the country may lose their jobs

Global/United States recession and painful economic slowdown affects are heading towards India now: Over 50,000 IT professionals in the country may lose their jobs!!

It appears that Global/United States recession and painful economic slowdown affects are heading towards India now. India economic situation which is supposed to be in under control till now will remain in control during this global economics hard hitting period I just hope. Our government did bail out few industries earlier and now it seems like that our Pride IT & ITES industries also needs some bailout packages in coming days.

Yesterday Yahoo.com reported that Over 50,000 IT professionals in the country may lose their jobs over the next six months as the situation in the sector is expected to worsen due to the impact of global economic meltdown on the export-driven industry, a forecast by a union of IT Enabled Services warned.

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I just hope this Global recession is not going to affect adversely Indian industries and we will be able to get out of this economic crunch and job losses things sooner and in a much better way. Keeping Finger Cross

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Indian outsourcing market is set to suffer due to high increase of labour cost ! Act Now or for sure be ready for sorry state !!

Indian outsourcing market is set to suffer due to high increase of labor cost. Skills shortage and rising labor cost of India’s talents is driving away most of the big IT players towards East European countries and china to find out cost reduction.  India is no longer able to give cost cut to these big IT players.

Many companies who were opened their offshore center in last few years here in India are planning to move somewhere else or in process of moving out because high cost of Indian Labor Market.

Emerging nations like Morocco, Hungry and other SE nations will eat major chunk of Indian IT outsourcing market share if we still not sit down, do some brain stormy thinking and make workable long term strategy to keep this industry at par.

We desperately need that our government should sit down with outsourcing and off shoring corporate leaders to identify specific skills required for the industry, current market trend and how we can reduce the cost of products and solution without hurting the cost of labor market and in future how we can control labor rising cost. Government should also try to find out the way to decrease taxes to keep this industry growth for at least next decade.

Outsourcing industry gives India billions of Dollars every year; this is the main factor that our economy is growing so fast. If we don’t do major brain stormy session now and don’t come up with some long term strategy for this industry then be prepared for sorry state.

We are heading to lose our greatest strength – low-cost labor – Act Now or for sure be ready for sorry state !!

India no longer top outsourcing destination?

ndia’s dominance as a low-cost outsourcing destination seems to be on the decline, with countries like China, Morocco and Hungary fast emerging as the preferred choices by IT services providers, a recent study says.

Focused on UK’s top IT service providers, a study by Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) showed that China, Morocco and Hungary are the new locations of choice to set up offshore sourcing centres.