The fundamentals of India’s $118 billion technology outsourcing industry rest on a few key pillars. Teams of engineers are cheaper here than in developed markets, for one. 印度1180亿美元技术外包行业的基本面取决于几个关键支柱。这里比在发达市场团队的工程师是便宜,。
The time zone difference with the US, which meant teams here could work while coders in North America slept, making code development a round-the-clock operation, was deemed a major advantage. Other factors, such as fluency in English and a large pool of technical manpower, helped make the journey smoother.
But the main ingredient in this cocktail of advantage was location. Teams based in India, earning an Indian wage, built this industry that now contributes an estimated 8% to India’s GDP annually.
Its geographical centre of gravity, which has hovered above Bengaluru for more than four decades, however, is now beginning to erode, as business and geopolitical factors compel Indian IT companies<\/a> to hire teams overseas.
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As the political sentiment around outsourcing has sharply deteriorated, especially in the US, the liberal visa norms that facilitated the flow of engineers from India to client sites in mature markets, has turned hostile. Multiple companies are facing lawsuits alleging discrimination in hiring<\/a> practices, making the sector conscious of issues around diversity. And most importantly, as the nature of work shifts to newer paradigms such as social, mobile, analytics and cloud, many companies prefer vendors to work in proximity to their internal teams.
In response, Indian IT, a prestige employer preferred by millions at home, is re-thinking hiring<\/a> and manpower. While automation and robotics chip away at the low-end jobs the industry generates, it is also hiring thousands of people overseas, either to win contracts that require either domain skills in segments such as analytics and artificial intelligence or for conservative customers who demand local centres and local hires.
The greenshoots of this trend have been visible across the IT landscape for a while now. But as anti-immigration and anti-outsourcing political rhetoric sharpens in the US and Europe, the shift, requisite investments and the pressure on margins owing to higher costs, have all got real, bigger and urgent.
Expanding Overseas<\/strong>
TCS<\/a>, Infosys<\/a> and their rivals are all queuing up to hire talent — engineers, mathematicians, data scientists and sales and marketers, among others — to meet the needs of this changed market. Around 20% of TCS<\/a> hiring has been locally sourced in the past 12 months, a company spokesperson told ET Magazine.
TCS has invested $100 million in the US and created some 17,000 jobs in that country between 2011 and 2017, vice-president Vish Iyer said in a December interview with ET. Infosys<\/a>, India’s second largest software exporter, had on December 5, opened a large centre in Hartford, Connecticut, where it plans to hire some 1,000 people by 2022.
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This is the third centre in the US for the firm, which also has units in Indiana and North Carolina, with two more planned. Infosys has already hired some 7,000 people in the US and plans to hit 10,000 by next year. It will spend $20,000 training each one.
Cognizant<\/a>, which has a majority of its coders in low-cost locations, including India, had at the end of 2017, approximately 50,400 employees in North America (up from 47,500 in 2016), and approximately 13,800 in Europe (up from 11,500 in 2016). “In the US… we now have delivery facilities in over 20 states and multiple centres in Canada and Mexico, with plans to expand this network,” says James Lennox, the company’s chief people officer. Cognizant<\/a> has hired 15,000 people in North America alone and continues to sustain its pace of recruitment there.
Other outsourcers are expanding their overseas hiring, too. HCL Technologies<\/a> says it has hired some 17,000 people in the US and around a third of them are local hires, reducing the dependence on shaky H-1B visas. In 2017, HCL Technologies<\/a> applied for 640 visas and was granted 400. It is now focusing on local hires to make weight.
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“Localisation is something which is inevitable for the industry and our localisation percentage is anywhere between 65 and 70 in most places,” Apparao VV, company’s HR Head, told ET in August. This means 65-70% of their staff at overseas facilities are nationals of those countries.
Wipro<\/a> has over 14,000 people in the US and nearly 60% are local hires. In March, Wipro<\/a> opened a 45,000 sq ft centre in Plano, Texas, staffed with 150 people, with plans to ramp up to 2,000 in a couple of years. This is in addition to facilities in Houston and Dallas, focused on digital technologies.
“When we go and work in a particular state, we get access to the businesses around that place…. if you can get service a short car drive away, why will you give work to a provider who you will have to take a plane to go meet? That way it helps us get more business,” Wipro CEO Abidali Neemuchwala told ET earlier this year.
Infosys did not comment due to a silent period ahead of results. TCS and Wipro said its senior executives were travelling and unavailable to comment now.
A slew of lawsuits alleging discrimination in hiring practices has hit Indian IT companies<\/a> in recent years, drawing political attention to the issue.
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On November 5, three former TCS employees, Christopher Slaight, Seyed Amir Masoudi and Nobel Mandili, filed a case in the US, claiming they had been discriminated against and eventually fired based on their ethnicity. TCS, the trio claimed in their suit, let go far fewer people of South Asian origin, compared with others. The charges were dismissed in court. Several other IT firms, including Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra, face similar cases in American courts.
Even as they battle individual charges legally, the cases bring greater political attention to how much local employment is generated by these companies that bill large sums to US- and Europe-headquartered companies and multinationals.
Pricey Yet Scarce<\/strong>
As they expand their overseas footprint, Indian outsourcers will face unprecedented competition for talent, especially because their hiring is for more specialised capabilities. Wipro, for example, wants to make its Plano, Texas, centre a global hub for cyber security. Others are hiring in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and data sciences. HR consultants and industry executives point out that TCS and its cohort are jostling with immediate rivals such as IBM and Accenture as well as broader technology players, startups and software product companies for this talent.
“Service providers find themselves in competition with US firms of all kinds that are looking to fill their tech needs,” says Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO, Everest Group, an outsourcing advisor.
While technology behemoths can pay top dollar for the best talent, they also hire in smaller numbers. Indian companies may try to beat the resultant wage inflation by locating their centres away from major tech hubs, where competition and wages are at its peak, and hiring more extensively from campuses and training fresh hires, similar to how they work back home.
“Whether you are Accenture or Capgemini, or an Indian-headquartered company, the labour arbitrage is no longer there based on region and geography,” says R Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, a technology advisor. “In cases where digital skill sets are needed, customers are paying for faster access to talent, increased time to market and local delivery. The willingness to pay premium to complete a digital project makes a lot of this feasible.”
The challenge of paying for these resources is the biggest stumbling block for these companies. According to estimates from the likes of Kris Laxmikanth, CEO of The Headhunters, a HR Consultancy in Bengaluru, someone with eight to ten years of experience can expect to earn around `80 lakh annually in the US, four or five times more than their peers here. In hot segments such as machine learning and data sciences, this skew can be even higher.
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“There is a shortage of, and significant competition for, professionals with advanced technological skills we and others require, especially in the area of digital technologies and services,” says Lennox of Cognizant. “We continue to invest in development of our people, are looking at ways of enhancing employee engagement, retaining them and creating compelling new opportunities.”
The inevitable margin pressure is being felt. Infosys has already reduced its targeted margin to 22-24% for FY19 from 23-25% as it needs to pay higher wages onshore. Despite this, the company — and its peers — are aiming for the best of both worlds. They want to hire talent locally in these high-cost locations, but also push more work to offshore locations, led by India.
“Our focus on optimising on onsite employee cost including sharper focus on productivity, onsite pyramid and others, localisation and cost optimisation measures led to a decrease in the onsite employee cost,” Infosys’ former finance chief MD Ranganath said on a call after announcing the firm’s annual results in April 2018. “Our efforts… resulted in onsite mix decreasing to 29.3% this year. In Q4, this further reduced to 28.7%, which is the lowest level in 12 quarters.” Wipro, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies have also faced margin pressure over the last few years as they ramp up their investments in onsite resources.
HCL Technologies, which overtook Wipro to become the No. 3 player, has seen margins fall from as high as over 24% four years ago to under 20% at the end of the last fiscal. Analysts tracking the space said companies would face strong headwinds as they seek to ramp up this type of hiring. “Indian firms are faced with growing labour cost and a shortage of qualified workers for their US and EU operations,” says Bendor-Samuel of Everest. “This is increasingly eroding margins and offsetting the gains they would have otherwise enjoyed from rupee depreciation.”
Outsourcers are doubling down this path nevertheless, knowing this is a beast they will need to tame sooner than later.
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与美国时区的不同,这意味着球队在这里可以工作,而程序员在北美睡,使得代码开发一个24小时作业,被认为是一个主要的优势。其他因素,如流利英语和一个庞大的技术人力,使旅程顺利。
但这种鸡尾酒的优势的主要成分是位置。基于团队在印度,印度工资收入,这个行业,现在估计有8%有助于印度的GDP每年。
政治人气外包大幅恶化,尤其在美国,自由签证规范,促进了工程师的流动从印度到成熟市场的客户网站,已经怀有敌意。多个公司正面临诉讼指控歧视招聘实践,使部门意识到问题的多样性。最重要的是,由于工作的性质转向新范式,如社会、移动、分析和云,许多公司选择供应商在靠近他们的内部团队工作。
作为回应,印度IT,数百万人的威望雇主更喜欢在家里,是反思招聘和人力。自动化和机器人蚕食低端就业行业产生,这也是海外雇佣成千上万的人,要么赢得合同需要领域技能分析和人工智能等领域或保守客户本地中心和本地员工的需求。
这种趋势已经明显的复苏萌芽在现在风景一段时间。但随着反移民和anti-outsourcing政治言论提高在美国和欧洲,这种转变,必要的投资和利润由于成本上升的压力,都有真实的,越来越紧迫。
海外扩张
TCS,印孚瑟斯和他们的对手都是排队聘请人才——工程师、数学家,数据科学家和销售和营销人员等,以满足这个改变了市场的需求。大约20%的TCS招聘已经在过去12个月里采购,公司发言人告诉等杂志。
TCS已投资1亿美元在美国和创建了一些17000个工作岗位在那个国家从2011年到2017年,副总统Vish艾耶说12月采访等。印孚瑟斯印度第二大软件出口国,12月5日,在哈特福德开了一个大中心,康涅狄格州,它计划在2022年雇佣大约1000人。
这是第三个中心在美国的公司,也有单位在印第安纳和北卡罗莱纳,与两个计划。印孚瑟斯已经在美国雇佣了大约7000人,计划在明年达到10000。它将花费20000美元每一个培训。
认识到,大部分程序员在低成本地区,包括印度,在2017年底,约有50400名员工在北美(高于47500年的2016),和大约13800在欧洲(从11500年的2016)。“在美国…我们现在有交付设施在超过20个州在加拿大和墨西哥和多个中心,并计划扩大这个网络,”詹姆斯·伦诺克斯说,该公司的首席官。认识到雇佣了15000人仅在北美地区,继续维持其招聘的步伐。
其他外包商正在扩大其海外招聘。HCL科技公司说它雇佣了大约17000人在美国和大约三分之一的本地员工,减少依赖摇摇欲坠的h - 1 b签证。在2017年,HCL科技公司申请640签证,被授予400。现在专注于本地员工体重。
“本地化是行业是不可避免的,我们的本地化比例是65年和70年之间在大多数地方,“Apparao VV, 8月份公司人力资源负责人,告诉等。这意味着65 - 70%的员工在海外机构是这些国家的公民。
Wipro有超过14000人在美国,近60%是本地员工。今年3月,Wipro在德克萨斯州普莱诺开设了一个45000平方英尺的中心,配备150人,计划增加到2000年的几年。这是除了设施在休斯顿和达拉斯,专注于数字技术。
“当我们去工作在一个特定的状态,我们获得的企业…在那个地方。如果你可以得到服务短车开走,为什么你会给工作提供者谁你要坐飞机去见面?它帮助我们得到更多的业务,”Wipro CEO Abidali Neemuchwala今年早些时候告诉等。
印孚瑟斯没有评论由于静止期提前结果。TCS和Wipro表示,其高管是旅行,现在无法置评。
一系列诉讼指控歧视在招聘做法打击了印度信息技术公司近年来,政治关注的问题。
11月5日,三位前TCS员工,克里斯托弗•Slaight赛义德阿米尔Masoudi诺贝尔Mandili,在美国提起诉讼,声称他们已经基于他们的种族歧视最终解雇。TCS,三人声称在他们的套装,让南亚裔远远更少的人,与他人相比。在法庭上指控被撤销了。其他几个IT公司,其中包括印孚瑟斯,Wipro,认识到,马恒达科技公司HCL科技公司和美国法院面临类似的情况。
即使他们战斗个人收费合法,病例使更大的政治关注当地就业的多少是由这些公司,比尔给我们大量Europe-headquartered公司和跨国公司。
昂贵的稀缺
扩大海外业务,印度外包商将面临前所未有的竞争人才,尤其是因为他们雇佣更多的专业能力。Wipro,例如,想使其龙门,德克萨斯州中心全球网络安全中心。其他招聘等领域的人工智能,机器学习和数据科学。人力资源顾问和业内高管指出,TCS和队列拥挤与直接竞争对手,如IBM和埃森哲以及广泛的技术球员,创业人才和软件产品公司。
“服务提供商发现自己与美国企业的各种竞争、寻求满足他们的技术需求,”Peter Bendor-Samuel说,首席执行官,珠峰集团外包顾问。
虽然技术巨头可以付高价最优秀的人才,他们还雇佣在较小的数字。印度公司可能会试图击败合成工资通胀通过定位中心远离主要科技中心,在竞争和工资是在高峰时期,,更广泛从校园招聘和培训新员工,类似于他们如何工作回家。
”无论你是埃森哲咨询公司凯捷或Indian-headquartered公司劳动力套利不再有基于区域和地理,”R射线Wang说,首席执行官星座研究的技术顾问。”在这种情况下,数字技能是必须的,客户支付更快获得人才,增加上市时间和地方交付。愿意支付溢价完成数字项目很可行的。”
支付这些资源的挑战为这些公司是最大的绊脚石。据克丽丝Laxmikanth,估计猎头公司的首席执行官,人力资源咨询公司在班加罗尔,8到10年的经验的人可以赢得周围的80年美国每年十万的,比同龄人的四到五倍。在机器学习等热段和数据科学、这个斜可以更高。
“缺乏显著的竞争,我们和其他人需要专业人员与先进的技术技能,特别是在数字技术和服务领域,“认识到伦诺克斯说。“我们继续投资于我们的人民的发展,正在寻找方法提高员工敬业度,留住他们,创造引人注目的新的机会。”
不可避免的压力感受。印孚瑟斯已经减少了目标利润率为FY19 22 - 24%从23 - 25%,因为它需要支付更高的工资在岸。尽管如此,该公司及其同行——希望达到两全其美。他们想要雇佣当地人才在这些高成本的位置,但也促使更多的工作离岸地点,由印度。
“我们专注于现场员工成本的优化包括更专注于生产力,现场金字塔和其他人来说,本地化和成本优化措施导致现场员工成本,减少“印孚瑟斯的前首席财务官MD Ranganath说后一个电话在2018年4月宣布公司的年度业绩。“我们努力…导致现场混合下降到今年的29.3%。在第四季度,这进一步降低到28.7%,这是12个季度的最低水平。“Wipro, Tech Mahindra和HCL科技公司也面临利润压力在过去的几年里,他们在现场资源加大投资。
HCL科技公司,取代惠普成为3号球员,利润率下降从四年前高达24%以上20%以下的财政。分析师跟踪的空间表示公司将面临强大的阻力,因为他们寻求加大这种类型的招聘。“印度企业正面临着日益增长的劳动力成本和缺乏合格的工人为他们的美国和欧盟操作,“珠峰的Bendor-Samuel说。“这是日益侵蚀利润,抵消收益从卢比贬值,否则他们会享受。”
外包商翻下来不过这条路,知道这是一个他们迟早会需要驯服野兽。
The fundamentals of India’s $118 billion technology outsourcing industry rest on a few key pillars. Teams of engineers are cheaper here than in developed markets, for one.
The time zone difference with the US, which meant teams here could work while coders in North America slept, making code development a round-the-clock operation, was deemed a major advantage. Other factors, such as fluency in English and a large pool of technical manpower, helped make the journey smoother.
But the main ingredient in this cocktail of advantage was location. Teams based in India, earning an Indian wage, built this industry that now contributes an estimated 8% to India’s GDP annually.
Its geographical centre of gravity, which has hovered above Bengaluru for more than four decades, however, is now beginning to erode, as business and geopolitical factors compel Indian IT companies<\/a> to hire teams overseas.
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As the political sentiment around outsourcing has sharply deteriorated, especially in the US, the liberal visa norms that facilitated the flow of engineers from India to client sites in mature markets, has turned hostile. Multiple companies are facing lawsuits alleging discrimination in hiring<\/a> practices, making the sector conscious of issues around diversity. And most importantly, as the nature of work shifts to newer paradigms such as social, mobile, analytics and cloud, many companies prefer vendors to work in proximity to their internal teams.
In response, Indian IT, a prestige employer preferred by millions at home, is re-thinking hiring<\/a> and manpower. While automation and robotics chip away at the low-end jobs the industry generates, it is also hiring thousands of people overseas, either to win contracts that require either domain skills in segments such as analytics and artificial intelligence or for conservative customers who demand local centres and local hires.
The greenshoots of this trend have been visible across the IT landscape for a while now. But as anti-immigration and anti-outsourcing political rhetoric sharpens in the US and Europe, the shift, requisite investments and the pressure on margins owing to higher costs, have all got real, bigger and urgent.
Expanding Overseas<\/strong>
TCS<\/a>, Infosys<\/a> and their rivals are all queuing up to hire talent — engineers, mathematicians, data scientists and sales and marketers, among others — to meet the needs of this changed market. Around 20% of TCS<\/a> hiring has been locally sourced in the past 12 months, a company spokesperson told ET Magazine.
TCS has invested $100 million in the US and created some 17,000 jobs in that country between 2011 and 2017, vice-president Vish Iyer said in a December interview with ET. Infosys<\/a>, India’s second largest software exporter, had on December 5, opened a large centre in Hartford, Connecticut, where it plans to hire some 1,000 people by 2022.
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This is the third centre in the US for the firm, which also has units in Indiana and North Carolina, with two more planned. Infosys has already hired some 7,000 people in the US and plans to hit 10,000 by next year. It will spend $20,000 training each one.
Cognizant<\/a>, which has a majority of its coders in low-cost locations, including India, had at the end of 2017, approximately 50,400 employees in North America (up from 47,500 in 2016), and approximately 13,800 in Europe (up from 11,500 in 2016). “In the US… we now have delivery facilities in over 20 states and multiple centres in Canada and Mexico, with plans to expand this network,” says James Lennox, the company’s chief people officer. Cognizant<\/a> has hired 15,000 people in North America alone and continues to sustain its pace of recruitment there.
Other outsourcers are expanding their overseas hiring, too. HCL Technologies<\/a> says it has hired some 17,000 people in the US and around a third of them are local hires, reducing the dependence on shaky H-1B visas. In 2017, HCL Technologies<\/a> applied for 640 visas and was granted 400. It is now focusing on local hires to make weight.
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“Localisation is something which is inevitable for the industry and our localisation percentage is anywhere between 65 and 70 in most places,” Apparao VV, company’s HR Head, told ET in August. This means 65-70% of their staff at overseas facilities are nationals of those countries.
Wipro<\/a> has over 14,000 people in the US and nearly 60% are local hires. In March, Wipro<\/a> opened a 45,000 sq ft centre in Plano, Texas, staffed with 150 people, with plans to ramp up to 2,000 in a couple of years. This is in addition to facilities in Houston and Dallas, focused on digital technologies.
“When we go and work in a particular state, we get access to the businesses around that place…. if you can get service a short car drive away, why will you give work to a provider who you will have to take a plane to go meet? That way it helps us get more business,” Wipro CEO Abidali Neemuchwala told ET earlier this year.
Infosys did not comment due to a silent period ahead of results. TCS and Wipro said its senior executives were travelling and unavailable to comment now.
A slew of lawsuits alleging discrimination in hiring practices has hit Indian IT companies<\/a> in recent years, drawing political attention to the issue.
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On November 5, three former TCS employees, Christopher Slaight, Seyed Amir Masoudi and Nobel Mandili, filed a case in the US, claiming they had been discriminated against and eventually fired based on their ethnicity. TCS, the trio claimed in their suit, let go far fewer people of South Asian origin, compared with others. The charges were dismissed in court. Several other IT firms, including Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, HCL Technologies and Tech Mahindra, face similar cases in American courts.
Even as they battle individual charges legally, the cases bring greater political attention to how much local employment is generated by these companies that bill large sums to US- and Europe-headquartered companies and multinationals.
Pricey Yet Scarce<\/strong>
As they expand their overseas footprint, Indian outsourcers will face unprecedented competition for talent, especially because their hiring is for more specialised capabilities. Wipro, for example, wants to make its Plano, Texas, centre a global hub for cyber security. Others are hiring in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and data sciences. HR consultants and industry executives point out that TCS and its cohort are jostling with immediate rivals such as IBM and Accenture as well as broader technology players, startups and software product companies for this talent.
“Service providers find themselves in competition with US firms of all kinds that are looking to fill their tech needs,” says Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO, Everest Group, an outsourcing advisor.
While technology behemoths can pay top dollar for the best talent, they also hire in smaller numbers. Indian companies may try to beat the resultant wage inflation by locating their centres away from major tech hubs, where competition and wages are at its peak, and hiring more extensively from campuses and training fresh hires, similar to how they work back home.
“Whether you are Accenture or Capgemini, or an Indian-headquartered company, the labour arbitrage is no longer there based on region and geography,” says R Ray Wang, CEO of Constellation Research, a technology advisor. “In cases where digital skill sets are needed, customers are paying for faster access to talent, increased time to market and local delivery. The willingness to pay premium to complete a digital project makes a lot of this feasible.”
The challenge of paying for these resources is the biggest stumbling block for these companies. According to estimates from the likes of Kris Laxmikanth, CEO of The Headhunters, a HR Consultancy in Bengaluru, someone with eight to ten years of experience can expect to earn around `80 lakh annually in the US, four or five times more than their peers here. In hot segments such as machine learning and data sciences, this skew can be even higher.
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“There is a shortage of, and significant competition for, professionals with advanced technological skills we and others require, especially in the area of digital technologies and services,” says Lennox of Cognizant. “We continue to invest in development of our people, are looking at ways of enhancing employee engagement, retaining them and creating compelling new opportunities.”
The inevitable margin pressure is being felt. Infosys has already reduced its targeted margin to 22-24% for FY19 from 23-25% as it needs to pay higher wages onshore. Despite this, the company — and its peers — are aiming for the best of both worlds. They want to hire talent locally in these high-cost locations, but also push more work to offshore locations, led by India.
“Our focus on optimising on onsite employee cost including sharper focus on productivity, onsite pyramid and others, localisation and cost optimisation measures led to a decrease in the onsite employee cost,” Infosys’ former finance chief MD Ranganath said on a call after announcing the firm’s annual results in April 2018. “Our efforts… resulted in onsite mix decreasing to 29.3% this year. In Q4, this further reduced to 28.7%, which is the lowest level in 12 quarters.” Wipro, Tech Mahindra and HCL Technologies have also faced margin pressure over the last few years as they ramp up their investments in onsite resources.
HCL Technologies, which overtook Wipro to become the No. 3 player, has seen margins fall from as high as over 24% four years ago to under 20% at the end of the last fiscal. Analysts tracking the space said companies would face strong headwinds as they seek to ramp up this type of hiring. “Indian firms are faced with growing labour cost and a shortage of qualified workers for their US and EU operations,” says Bendor-Samuel of Everest. “This is increasingly eroding margins and offsetting the gains they would have otherwise enjoyed from rupee depreciation.”
Outsourcers are doubling down this path nevertheless, knowing this is a beast they will need to tame sooner than later.
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