Author here. Though IBM hasn't officially confirmed this themselves as they have stopped calling out the number of employees in each of their countries, but the

Author here. Though IBM hasn't officially confirmed this themselves as they have stopped calling out the number of employees in each of their countries, but there have been several pieces out there corroborating the size of its Indian workforce exceed their US ones (and these articles are more than 4 yrs old when IBM US workforce was still large and the recent layoffs hadn't happened): http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ibm-now-employs-more-workers-in-india-than-us/ http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ibm-now-employs-more-workers-in... http://www.computerworld.com/article/2493565/it-careers/in-a-symbolic-shift--ibm-s-india-workforce-likely-exceeds-u-s-.html http://www.computerworld.com/article/2493565/it-careers/in-a... IBM, Accenture and CG make a large amount of their revenue from IT outsourcing [1] where their largest competitors are TCS, Infosys etc. They can't win the cost game without having a significant presence in India and getting some of their employees client side. [1] http://revenuesandprofits.com/how-ibm-makes-money/ http://revenuesandprofits.com/how-ibm-makes-money/