Oracle India to Add 1,400 Jobs
Oracle India to Add 1,400 Jobs
Oracle wants to expand its presence to smaller towns and businesses in the fast-growing Indian economy.
Oracle said Tuesday it will add 1,400 people to its workforce in India as the company reaches out to smaller business customers in the country’s towns and rural areas.
Speaking at the Open World annual developer conference in Mumbai, Oracle President Charles Phillips said the company is ramping up the expansion of its operations in India and will increase its workforce to 10,000 in the next eight months. The new workers will be in the areas of sales and marketing, product development, consulting, and product support and services.
“We have been in India for more than 19 years and the infrastructure we have put in place now enables us to go beyond the metro cities and into the cities that are the up-and-coming economic engines of India,” Mr. Phillips said.
The software company’s current Indian workforce strength of 8,600 is about 17 percent of its 51,000 global workforce. It already operates in six Indian cities. Under the expansion plan, the company will start operating in 15 Indian cities within the next eight months.
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