Why Indian companies like the offshoring giant Wipro are supplanting the educational system to develop the employees they need.
When you walk around the Bangalore campus of technology-outsourcing giant Wipro, something feels familiar. Sure, it's India, so the sun is too hot and the women float by in a rainbow of saris. But there's still a sense of deja vu.
At lunchtime, young employees (average age: 27) swarm into cafeteria cliques, or stream into computer labs, or exit en masse from one three-story lecture hall into another. Oh, that's right. It feels like college.
Text: Arianne Cohen, FastCompany.com
Image: Harvard, Indian Style: Wipro employees study for degrees and new job responsibilities at its Bangalore campus. | Photograph, courtesy: FastCompany.com
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