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The average age of employees at India's top software services exporter -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), one of the country's largest private sector employers -- is 28.
Students attend class at the Bansal Classes in Kota, in India's state of Rajasthan.This is 10 years less than the median age at American technology giant Oracle (ORCL), according to data from PayScale, an online provider of employee compensation data.
The composition of TCS employees is a reflection of India's young and burgeoning working-age population -- a competitive edge that sets Asia's third-largest economy apart from countries across the world, many of which are aging fast.
"A young workforce means having more innovative minds. It also means we are able to better leverage technology and increase efficiency," said Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, global HR head of business process outsourcing for TCS.
Like TCS, the median age of India's population as a whole is 28, significantly lower than that of regional peers China and Japan, at 37.6 and 44.4, respectively, according to data from global market research firm Euromonitor.
India's workforce, those between 15 and 64, is expected to rise from almost 64 percent of its population in 2009 to 67 percent in 2020. Meanwhile, China's is expected to start declining from 2014 resulting in a labor shortfall by 2050, according to some estimates.
"India has close to ideal demographics. It's in a sweet spot," said Robert Prior-Wandesforde, director, Asian economics research at Credit Suisse (CS). "As the population's working age expands, savings increase - and that turns into a source of funding for investment. This will be beneficial for the country's competitiveness as other countries age."
Read More : http://finance.yahoo.com/news/indias-secret-weapon-young-population-134507535.html
Students attend class at the Bansal Classes in Kota, in India's state of Rajasthan.This is 10 years less than the median age at American technology giant Oracle (ORCL), according to data from PayScale, an online provider of employee compensation data.
The composition of TCS employees is a reflection of India's young and burgeoning working-age population -- a competitive edge that sets Asia's third-largest economy apart from countries across the world, many of which are aging fast.
"A young workforce means having more innovative minds. It also means we are able to better leverage technology and increase efficiency," said Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, global HR head of business process outsourcing for TCS.
Like TCS, the median age of India's population as a whole is 28, significantly lower than that of regional peers China and Japan, at 37.6 and 44.4, respectively, according to data from global market research firm Euromonitor.
India's workforce, those between 15 and 64, is expected to rise from almost 64 percent of its population in 2009 to 67 percent in 2020. Meanwhile, China's is expected to start declining from 2014 resulting in a labor shortfall by 2050, according to some estimates.
"India has close to ideal demographics. It's in a sweet spot," said Robert Prior-Wandesforde, director, Asian economics research at Credit Suisse (CS). "As the population's working age expands, savings increase - and that turns into a source of funding for investment. This will be beneficial for the country's competitiveness as other countries age."
Read More : http://finance.yahoo.com/news/indias-secret-weapon-young-population-134507535.html
