In The New Economist :

From his tree-top-high office, Kris Gopalakrishnan, the head of India's giant software company Infosys, explains the rise of an economic phenomenon about to engulf the world: outsourcers are outsourcing themselves.

Once known for sucking jobs out of call centres and IT departments in the west, Indian technology firms are re-exporting them to wealthier nations as wage inflation and skills shortages at home reverse the process.

Wipro, another hi-tech titan, has been on a spending spree, buying up companies in America, Finland, Portugal and Europe for hundreds of millions of dollars. Azim Premji, Wipro's chairman, raised eyebrows on Wall Street when he talked this year of setting up divisions in Idaho, Virginia and Georgia - US states he said were attractive because they were "less developed".

J'ai peur, pour certains industriels ayant délocalisé de gros projets, que les marchés, et en particulier celui du travail, soient beaucoup plus rapides à réagir que ces entreprises ne le sont à rentabiliser leurs investissements à l'étranger :

The move highlights two converging trends: first the demand for skilled talent in India is sending salaries skyrocketing. One startup in Bangalore decamped to Silicon Valley after finding that programmers were asking for wages of up to 75% of those paid in California.


(Billet connexe : "quand les délocalisations inversent les rapports de force", mars 2007)