By: Varun Kumar
September 2 2020
True: Infosys plans to hire 12,000 American workers in the next two years.
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Infosys has said it will hire 12,000 new American workers by 2022 and reach the commitment in the country to 25,000 over five years.
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Infosys has said it will hire 12,000 new American workers by 2022 and reach the commitment in the country to 25,000 over five years.The company said that through the expanded commitment, Infosys would hire an additional 12,000 workers by 2022 across a variety of roles. It would target experienced technology professionals as well as recent graduates from major universities, liberal arts colleges, and community colleges to create the best workforce for the future. Infosys CEO Salil Parekh said that the company is intensely concentrated on creating jobs in the U.S. for the past three years, and they are proud of the new initiative. The company will make use of the recently launched Reskill and Restart platform to meet the commitment which will help the American workers transition from conventional jobs across various industries and workstreams to digital and operations jobs of the future.