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The three combined employ close to 7,00,000 people. Many of them Americans. They should be disciplined not destroyed.
by sidcool 10y ago
The three combined employ close to 7,00,000 people. Many of them Americans. They should be disciplined not destroyed.
- doingmyting 10y agoThey should be destroyed! Used to work for one of them. They took 70% of my billing rate and out of what was left I had to pay for my health insurance that I got through them. Granted that was back in the day so maybe they've gotten better, but I doubt it.
- lossolo 10y agoIt should be 700,000 and I don't know if most of them are Americans, from what I see those companies have acquired a lot of other businesses around the world and hire people there also. So for sure they employ around 700k people around the world but saying that most of them are americans would probably need some source to back it up. EDIT: TCS had "The number of non-Indian nationals was 21,282" in 2013. EDIT2: Cognizant "The company has more than 255,800 employees globally, of which over 150,000 are in India" EDIT3: Infosys "Its workforce consists of employees representing 122 nationalities working from 32 countries (37 countries as per the base location)." So Americans are minority in those companies.
- clay_to_n 10y agoAs an aside, "7,00,000" is common to see in India. 1,00,000 (100,000) is 1 lakh. So 700,000 is said as "seven lakh" and written as 7,00,000. If you go even higher, 10,000,000 is written as "10,00,00,000" and called "1 crore".
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- umanwizard 10y agoThe last number you wrote (10,00,00,000) is ten crore, not one.
- clay_to_n 10y agoYou're totally right and the commas should have tipped me off to that.
- sidcool 10y agoYou focussed on wrong things. No one said Most of Them. I said Many of Them. There's a difference. And if it wasn't clear earlier, let me state it clearly. The three companies have most of their employees in India. But there are people employed in other countries too.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThose are jobs primarily taken from other workers, not new jobs being created. If these companies didn't exist (and they shouldn't), that many jobs would be held by better paid American counterparts instead.
- ajmurmann 10y agoWe are always do afraid of destroying big corporations because of the associated jobs. However, if there was a demanded that those companies were filling then other companies will take their place and grow to fill that demand. Companies that get frequently replaced by innovative competitors and get seriously punished for misbehavior rather than just getting off with a small find would make for a much more competitive economy and a more desirable society.
- rhizome 10y agoWhy not destroyed? It should be easier for companies to lose their corporate charters, because it sets a bad example to others if they can profit from being a bad citizen. In other words, you're going to invite to your party someone who previously shit in your pool?