Best New Outsourcing Hubs
Companies are moving IT jobs to a widening web of overseas cities — many of them far from Bangalore
By Rachael King
Becoming the next Bangalore will mean money in the bank. Since 2000, the tendency to move key operations outside a home country has added more than 1 million IT jobs to India and an additional 3 million jobs in local services and infrastructure, according to India's IT trade association, NASSCOM.
As labor costs and turnover rates rise in India, companies are starting to send work to other parts of the globe. Here are 10 cities that are emerging as new outsourcing centers. Each slide lists the city's specialties and which companies provide services there. The list was compiled by management consulting firm neoIT based on the availability and skill of workers, cost competitiveness, the quality of the local infrastructure such as transportation, and the risks of doing business in each city. The cities are listed alphabetically, as there is no ranking.