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Article: Microsoft Accused of Hiding Indian Work.(Brief Article)
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- Client Server News
- Article date:
- August 2, 2004
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WashTech, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a AFL-CIO- connected Seattle labor group, claims that Microsoft is hiding how many people it's got working for it in India behind the veil of contract workers, which Microsoft never publicly accounts for, and that, according to a bunch of contracts Microsoft has with Indian IT vendors that were leaked to WashTech, Microsoft is offshoring higher-level development work than it admits. WashTech says the documents, which include wage scales and projects that Infosys, Wipro, Satyam and Tata are doing for Microsoft, indicate Microsoft has almost 2,000 Indians on its payroll one way or another: the 970 full-time employees ...