As the shortage of IT human resources becomes more serious, it has become clear that Japanese companies are creating new development bases in India, where human resources are abundant.
The operator of SoftBank's smartphone payment service PayPay plans to establish a new app development base in India, further promoting the globalization of human resources.
According to people familiar with the matter, PayPay's operating company will set up a new development base for smartphone apps this month in Haryana, northern India.
Until now, we have responded by increasing the ratio of foreign engineers to about 70% at our development bases in Japan. , It seems that there is an aim to speed up development.
We plan to hire hundreds of engineers locally, and in the future, we plan to strengthen the development system to the same scale as our bases in Japan.
Regarding the shortage of IT human resources, movements among Japanese companies are becoming active, such as Rakuten Group and Mercari promoting the strengthening of human resource utilization in India.
On the other hand, India's IT human resources have already expanded their playing field to American high-tech companies, etc., and global competition for them is intensifying. The issue is how to proceed with the development.