The office of tomorrow's address is in INDIA

MADRAS, India — Task by task, function by function, the American office is being hollowed out and reconstituted in places like this, a makeshift facility on the sixth floor of a shopping arcade.

OfficeTiger Ltd., one of the most prominent and aggressive of a new breed of outsourcing companies, has hired 2,000 Indians, most of them young and all of them relentlessly gung-ho.

They work as typists, researchers, librarians, claims processors, proofreaders, accountants and graphic designers. Their clients are U.S. brokerage firms, investment banks, law firms and even copy shops.

The Indians take on jobs both big — 100-page investment reports requiring weeks of work — and small. Iayaraja Marimuthu, for instance, is designing a program for next month's wedding of Ann and John, a Texas couple proclaiming their joy in being "together for life." It will take him less than an hour.

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There are lots of consequences in doing business with India. There are very few laws to protect Intellectual Property. The government is very bureacratice. Also a business database can be easily penetrated by terrorists from neighboring Pakistan. I don't think many companies have thought about these consequences...

If my mortgage records are exposed to Pakistan, what does Citibank care?