The World Is Rocky

摘要

Infosys, one of India's biggest and A trendiest outsourcing firms, set nerves jangling on November 14th when it said it would give its workers year-long sabbaticals to do charity work. Or gardening, wise guys said. India's computer-services companies, which derive around 85% of their revenues from exports to America and Britain, and 30-40% from financial-services work, will be hit hard by the financial crisis. In October Infosys-or Infy, to its friends-cut its predicted revenue growth for the year to 13-15%. In an industry that has grown by nearly 30% a year for the past decade, that would be bad.