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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 27 September 2006 | |
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“After having partnered with a two companies in India, we have two or three years experience working remotely off shore with partners,” says Sanderson. “Now we want to expand that activity in a low cost, well skilled environment and we selected the Philippines to build that. We hired our first three or four people in January and over the last nine months we’ve brought in 120 people, with the intention of growing that up to 400 or more over the next 18 months.” Having had experience in India for some years, some might find it touch surprising that Lawson decided to set up operations in Manila rather than a place like Bangalore or Hyderabad. “There are some challenges in India,” says Sanderson. “One of them is cost escalation. Costs are rising 15% plus.” |
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