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Dell to Hire 5,000 People in India

Computer maker Dell Inc. said Monday it planned to add 5,000 jobs in India over the next two years, bringing its work force in the country to 15,000. Dell is also looking to set up a manufacturing center in India, a move that could help boost the sale of Dell computers here, President and CEO Kevin Rollins told reporters after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.The Round Rock, Texas-based company will hire 700 to 1,000 workers for a new call center in Gurgaon, a satellite town of the capital, New Delhi, Rollins said. The new call center, the company’s fourth in India, will open in April, he said. The other new hires will staff call centers in the cities of Bangalore and Hyderabad in southern India and Mohali in the northern state of Punjab. Also this year, the company plans to double the staff at its product testing center in Bangalore, which currently employs 300 engineers, Rollins said.

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  1. cindy bravo wrote:

    It seems to me that there is something stupid about a foreign policy that simultaneously decares a War on Terror while aggressively pushing for Globalization. The combination of our developing dependencies on foreign countries for oil, cars, computer support and more along with our growing trade deficit is a major strategic weakness. Its only a matter of time before it burns us

    The people working for Dell in India, are inside the firewalls and security parameters of Dell. They have access to the same networks as people in Austin. They are a bit more likely to go to camp with the Mujahideen than the boy scouts on weekends however. What better place for them to hide? Who are we least likely to bomb?

    Every engineering job lost from Detroit to Korea is gone. The Korean will sell his work to the highest bidder. Given the size of our trade deficit, that bidder will be China. If US Marines need more armor for their Humvees, they’ll just have to wait.

    Let’s not even start on the holes in our security revolving around containers shipped into this county.

    Finally, our trade deficit is enormous. We might want to ask why foreigners are willing to lend us so much money at such low rates. Could it be they are acting in their best interest rather than ours? Could it be that the next time we tell the world “You are with us or against us” they will threaten to take away our credit cards, embargo strategic goods, and throw us all out of work?

    Posted 30 Jan 2006 at 4:27 pm

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