Ross Perot's company to increase workforce in India

HindustanTimes.com ^ | Washington, February 7 2004 | Indo-Asian News Service

[AM2000]

Perot Systems, the computer services company founded by former presidential candidate Ross Perot, is all set to add about 3,500 jobs in India and move into two new facilities there this year.

Most of the growth will come from a call centre and medical claims processing business, whose employee numbers are expected to rise to 2,800 workers from 800, said a report in the Star Telegram, published from Dallas, Texas.

Mindy Brown, a spokeswoman for the company, said the expansion was related to acquisitions of two Indian companies made by Perot Systems in the past year.

In July, Perot Systems paid up to $10 million for Vision Healthsource, which handles medical bills.

In December, it paid $105 million for technology outsourcing provider HCL Perot Systems, buying out its Indian joint-venture partner, HCL Technologies Ltd.

"We don't expect a large number of job transfers" from U.S. facilities to accompany the growth in India, Brown said.

Perot Systems has about 13,000 employees worldwide, including some 2,000 in the Metroplex and about 3,500 in Asia and India, the Star Telegram said.

The move reflects an accelerating growth of technology-related jobs in India, said Bill Martorelli of Forrester Research.

In a 2003 study, Forrester estimated that about 3.3 million US service jobs, including 472,000 technology jobs, would move to lower-cost countries like India in the next 15 years.

An entry-level computer programmer in India is paid $7,000 to $8,000 a year, compared with $40,000 to $50,000 in the US.

Other US technology firms that have announced similar moves include IBM, EDS and Microsoft.

Perot Systems said the additional workers in India are expected to be mostly health claims processors in the southern city of Chennai. Another new facility in Bangalore might start later this year.

[dts32041]

Giant sucking sound, wonder who said that.

[AM2000]

;-)

[Finalapproach29er]

What a patriot

[ETERNAL WARMING]

No surprise. When he was running he said that there were alot of anti-American rules on the books and he intended to take advantage of them until they were taken off the plate. Why shouldn't he?

[PhiKapMom]

Same person that trashed NAFTA while he and his family were building Allicance Airport outside Fort Worth to take NAFTA traffic away from San Antonio!

Little Big Ears proves once again to be a hypocrite but that isn't anything new!

[Consort]

Perot fooled a lot of people.

[gatorbait]

Thayut Gayunt Suckin' Sound yew heah,Lauree..is Ross Perot and any of his like minded garden gnomes ..PKM, I can tell you a story or two about AFW.

[gatorbait]

True principled conservative ping

[sixmil]

Perot gave up on open borders / unilateral free trade at least back in 2000 when he refused to back Buchanan for the Reform Party nomination, probably even before then.

[tracer]

Ken Starr??

[Brimack34]

He did his job he got a commie elected and added nukes to Pakistan, North Korea and Iran. And gave china a guidance system!!!!!

[tracer]

He's just getting even with those shadowy figures who had threatened to trash his daughter's wedding......

[tracer]

I know I am being very, very surprised, you know......

[onyx]

Folks continue to argue about Perot and whether he ruined 41's re-election chances ( I think he did ) but I give him this: he campaigned, supported and endorsed George W Bush in 2000, and for that I am grateful.

[panama7]

What a stand-up American this mishaped, malformed midget turned out to be -huh? Why is it that these "americans" continue to just get richer at the expense of other Americans? Wow- what a true patriot- and this guy coulda been President?
AAIIE-YA !

[LowCountryJoe]

Ah ha! Are you actually suggesting - on the protectionist's thread, no less - that their despise and lashing out against the those who seek profits above all else are misdirecting their anger at the "free trader" and not the very government that creates the atmosphere to find labor off shore?

[sixmil]

He did his job he got a commie elected and added nukes to Pakistan, North Korea and Iran. And gave china a guidance system!!!!!

We'll never know that for sure, but according to polls, Perot actually 'stole' more votes from Clinton. Republicans and Democrats lose elections all on their own. They don't own anyone's vote unless they are a total fool in my opinion.

[XBob]

1 - "Perot Systems said the additional workers in India are expected to be mostly health claims processors in the southern city of Chennai. Another new facility in Bangalore might start later this year."

Seems like we are condemning/working on the wrong problem - exporting jobs -

When in fact we should be concerned about why the hell we have such a screwed up, labor consuming health claim processing business to begin with. It is a complex, screwed up, burro-cratic mess.