Over half of Indian IT professionals may return to India ? Survey

emailpraba · Post by **emailpraba** » Wed May 04, 2011 2:24 am

Thanks to R2I club members.

Early April, Corp-Corp conducted a survey among Indian IT professionals. More than 1000 professionals responded to this survey. The results show more than half of the Indian IT professionals are planning to return to India.

Check the full report at http://www.corp-corp.com/blog/return-to-india-survey/

Survey Highlights

Here are a few quick insights from the survey:

50.1% of the people said that they will be returning to India soon.
6.4% of them have already returned to India and
43% do not have plan to return.
The survey participants includes permanent residents, citizens and Visa holders. The survey results shows 69% of visa holders and 57% permanent residents or citizens are intend to return.

Motivation to Return to India

Here are the key motivating factors for professionals to return to India:

The primary reason (51%) for the return is rejoining their family members in India.
26% of responded that better opportunities in India are the reason for their return.
Only 3% says they are returning due to job loss which is consistent with low unemployment of around 6% in the IT sector even though the generic unemployment is over 8%.
Around 10% are planning their return as they believe better education for their kids in India.

boca · Post by **boca** » Wed May 04, 2011 3:01 am

Thanks for the update. So RRK has hope for some more traffic to this site? :)

Where did you get hold of the 1000 participants to your survey?

hope4best · Post by **hope4best** » Wed May 04, 2011 3:59 am

emailpraba;386467
50.1% of the people said that they will be returning to India soon.

Not sure, what % of this category would end up returning though.

Most, if not all, R2I members want to or will be returning to India soon. But, how many return at the end of the day is a diff. story.

RocknRoll · Post by **RocknRoll** » Wed May 04, 2011 4:16 pm

emailpraba;386467Early April, Corp-Corp conducted a survey among Indian IT professionals. 50.1% of the people said that they will be returning to India soon.

I guess Corp-Corp has not heard of the n+1 syndrome.
Saying something and doing something are 2 totally different things..

suba · Post by **suba** » Wed May 04, 2011 9:21 pm

emailpraba;386467
50.1% of the people said that they will be returning to India soon.

Of all the IT friends that I know, not even 5% wants to return soon. I'm sure that is the case for most of us here. So this is not accurate unless "soon" means "tentatively in the next 20 years". May be I'm missing something!

oasis138 · Post by **oasis138** » Wed May 04, 2011 10:00 pm

sample bias...plus with desi's a yes could mean a no and vice versa....

mn_op · Post by **mn_op** » Wed May 04, 2011 10:14 pm

suba;386593Of all the IT friends that I know, not even 5% wants to return soon. I'm sure that is the case for most of us here. So this is not accurate unless "soon" means "tentatively in the next 20 years". May be I'm missing something!

Most Indians (below 50 years of age) I meet want to return someday. Doesn't mean much.

This survey, however, exposes a lot of things. Mainly, incompetence and inexperience of the surveyor.

boca · Post by **boca** » Wed May 04, 2011 10:26 pm

oasis138;386623sample bias...plus with desi's a yes could mean a no and vice versa....

You bring a good point. Which way did the head shake? Or was it a non-specific bobble?

indigoyogi · Post by **indigoyogi** » Wed May 04, 2011 10:26 pm

oasis138;386623sample bias...plus with desi's a yes could mean a no and vice versa....

like the famous Indian bobble head gesture.

oasis138 · Post by **oasis138** » Wed May 04, 2011 11:39 pm

boca2blr;386642You bring a good point. Which way did the head shake? Or was it a non-specific bobble?

I love when it goes around in kind of a circular manner ...obviously same bias as most folks over 50 would like to spend patr time in India and patr in US..