Last month my friend Thirunellai Viswanathan Mahalingam visited Bangalore to research a story on the pink slip phenomenon that has swept through most of this city’s IT industry like a California wildfire – please excuse that offshore simile, but it’s the lightest possible repartee when the US media reports so many jobs have been Bangalored.
That story has now been published in Outlook Business (the June 27 issue), and among the things I liked about it is that it does not hesitate to name companies. Infosys and Wipro – mostly darlings of the get-fat-quickly business and IT media – have been named as themselves, and it can be discerned how their respective media relations folks must have scrambled to assemble a “statement”. . . . → Read More: Bangalore IT's pink slip is showing
Bangalore IT's pink slip is showing
Last month my friend Thirunellai Viswanathan Mahalingam visited Bangalore to research a story on the pink slip phenomenon that has swept through most of this city’s IT industry like a California wildfire – please excuse that offshore simile, but it’s the lightest possible repartee when the US media reports so many jobs have been Bangalored.
That story has now been published in Outlook Business (the June 27 issue), and among the things I liked about it is that it does not hesitate to name companies. Infosys and Wipro – mostly darlings of the get-fat-quickly business and IT media – have been named as themselves, and it can be discerned how their respective media relations folks must have scrambled to assemble a “statement”. . . . → Read More: Bangalore IT's pink slip is showing