Posted on 02/11/2004 7:05:12 AM PST by Phantom Lord
Perot Systems to increase workforce in India
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 US 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 Chennai. Another new facility in Bangalore might start later this year.
Ross Perot cut a deal with Clinton to get the rapist in chief elected. Ross met with Clinton in Little Rock in 91. The deal was that when Hillary's healthcare was made law, Perot Systems would get the government contract to run the administration of it. HUGE deal.
Perot was populist enough to oppose it in theory, and a good enough businessman to be mugged by reality.
One of Clinton's State Patrol officers has gone on the record with this, as he was a witness. You must have missed the enormous hub-bub about it when the major media outlets all jumped on it </sarcasm off>
"Ross Perot and eight associates founded Perot Systems Corp. in 1988. The company now employs more than 13,000 associates worldwide, and is headquartered in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Perot Systems trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:PER). The Board of Directors named Ross Perot, Jr. president and CEO in 2000."
One of Clinton's State Patrol officers has gone on the record with this, as he was a witness. You must have missed the enormous hub-bub about it when the major media outlets all jumped on it </sarcasm off>
If this could be proved, it would be one of the greatest scandals in American history [of course, so would a hypothetical Vince Foster murder, or a hypothetical Ron Brown murder, or a hypothetical Chandra Levy-esque Monica Lewinsky murder, or...].
My guess would be that if ol' H. Ross really did make this deal, there might have been something else thrown in by the Clintons to sweeten the deal - something along the lines of, "Go along with our plan and not only will you land the HillaryCare systems contract, but we'll make sure that no one sees these pictures of you with the little Thai boys. Yer lookin' at a Two Fer One, H. Ross - What a bargain!"
Yep. If Perot had been elected in '92, these and many other jobs would have stayed here. And we wouldn't have had 8 years of Klintoon, either.
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