The Social Networking giant Facebook launched their new Office in Hyderabad, a city in southern part in India today with a traditional Indian style opening this morning. Hyderabad is well known as a cyber-city where software companies like Google & Microsoft has already established their base long ago. This office will provide customer support along with entertaining users and advertisers in the beginning, and will grow large with further activities in the future.
Facebook has already their on-site Office in various places of the globe like Palo Alto, California, Dublin, Ireland and Hyderabad also added in this list. The reason for opening office in India was customer support in Indian time and language support other than English, according to the Don Faul, company’s director of global online operations who also added that the Facebook having 70% of their users outside US; need support in different time zones and in different languages.
Watch Facebook India Office Opening here:
The other obvious reason for choosing India was the good quality service from professionals in a rate far cheaper than what it could be in US, which lured many companies to open their office in India with Indian workers and Facebook is no exception to that. And also there are already over 8 million of Facebook users in India and the number is growing rapidly since it became most popular social networking site beating Orkut.
Recently, Facebook announced themselves are free-cash-flow companies which is another reason for their developing in India and next probable location in Texas. This office in India is having a small team of customer care executives, software engineers and marketing people but they are in the process of recruiting more people in their team to make it bigger.
Thanks : Amit Bhawani
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