Infosys to build new facility in Bangalore

Nandita Gurjar, senior vice-president and group head - human resources - Infosys said the company is going anywhere where there is space.

“Last year, we built the Pune facility and it is ready for occupation this year. The decision to locate employees at a particular centre is purely based on capacity at a facility,” said Gurjar.

She said Infosys has been unable to expand its facility in Bangalore because of space constraint.

However, with the availability of land in the Sarjapur area of Bangalore, the company will start building a new facility next year.

Most information technology firms are looking at expanding their centres in Tier II cities to slash their human resource and real estate costs, which tend to be lower in these places.

Gurjar says her company does not benefit in terms employee cost by sending them to Tier II cities because Infosys has uniform pay scales across all centres.

“If we differentiate on salary (for different centres) then people will not be ready
to go to smaller towns,” she said.

On savings on real estate costs, she said Pune did work out cheaper than Bangalore.