STEVE INSKEEP, host: NPR's business news starts with the new hot spot for cheap labor: America.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: American call center employees are becoming almost as cheap as their Indian counterparts. That's according to the head of one of India's biggest outsourcing companies. In an interview with the Financial Times, Pramod Bhasin says the weak U.S. labor market, and rising wages in India, have narrowed what were once large differences in pay. And his company, Genpact, plans to hire as many as 3,000 workers in the United States in the next two years.
American call center employees are becoming almost as cheap as their Indian counterparts, according to the head of one of India's biggest outsourcing companies. In an interview with the Financial Times, Pramod Bhasin says the weak U.S. labor market and rising wages in India have narrowed what were once large differences in pay.