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Article

26 Apr 2009

Author:
Joe Leahy, Financial Times

Labours of love as Indians find romance [India]

[W]orkers in India’s growing outsourcing sector often look for partners...among their nearest colleagues...their employers are happy to play matchmaker, according to a new study by the Indian School of Business...The ISB study also cautions that Indian companies need to be mindful of potential problems such as sexual harassment – one issue that has given inter-office romance a bad name in the west. Indian legal guidelines on harassment require companies to maintain a “complaint cell” for women to report abuses. But the ISB finds that nearly a third of employees surveyed thought their company did not have such a cell or had not heard of one. [refers to Wipro, Mphasis, Cognizant Technology Solutions]