Outsourcing: From Troy, Michigan to Pune, India

This from a article dated today (8/17) by C. Medford in Red Herring.

Syntel, founded by Mr. Bharat Desai and his wife Mrs Neerja Sethi, in Troy, Michigan back in the 1980's, began moving its employees to its "spanking new Silicon Valley style, 40 acre campus" in Pune, India.

Syntel is outsourcing all of its operations to its own India based Outsourcing Operations, except Legal and Sales. With this move all but 500 employees out of a total of 6500 employees will be in United States.

The campus in Pune has gyms, cafeteria, overnight accomodations, courtesy vans. According to the Red Herring article, the campus is "part corporate residence part showpiece".

The article goes on to say that the campus is designed to make visiting U.S. clients feel comfortable about committing their computing operations to a company a world away. As mentioned in the article, according to Jonathan James, Syntel’s vice president of global marketing and investor relations, "It’s like a home away from home for U.S. businessmen."