At my office, almost everyone is deployed a laptop. We moved from desktops to laptops about two years ago when we moved to non-permanent workspaces. We're expected to work from home at least one day a week. We also have portable office phones and movable drawer trolleys that we park at our workspace for the day. Also, most employees have meetings where they are expected to bring laptops.
Now, only people who can't work from home, like the admin assistants, have desktops.
I was in Hyderabad in India last month and the amount of development ongoing was amazing. The government gives IT multi-nationals tax incentives to locate their business in India. In Hyderabad, they also give them land to build their businesses. Microsoft had recently opened a 28-acre campus there. There is a huge pool of talent in India -- consider that their population is over 1 billion, more than 3 times that of the US.
I agree that call centers based in India are not great -- the Indian accent can be very strong and difficult to understand for non-Indians. I think that their strength lies in other kinds of IT services, like software development.
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At my office, almost everyone is deployed a laptop. We moved from desktops to laptops about two years ago when we moved to non-permanent workspaces. We're expected to work from home at least one day a week. We also have portable office phones and movable drawer trolleys that we park at our workspace for the day. Also, most employees have meetings where they are expected to bring laptops. Now, only people who can't work from home, like the admin assistants, have desktops.
I was in Hyderabad in India last month and the amount of development ongoing was amazing. The government gives IT multi-nationals tax incentives to locate their business in India. In Hyderabad, they also give them land to build their businesses. Microsoft had recently opened a 28-acre campus there. There is a huge pool of talent in India -- consider that their population is over 1 billion, more than 3 times that of the US.
I agree that call centers based in India are not great -- the Indian accent can be very strong and difficult to understand for non-Indians. I think that their strength lies in other kinds of IT services, like software development.