Facebook Opening Office in India with 500 Employees

Facebook recently announced it would be opening an office in Hyderabad, India, to be able to provide better round-the-clock and multilingual support to its ever-increasing number of users, advertisers and third-party developers. According to Business Standard and India Times, the company is set to launch its India operations from the ‘City of Pearls’ – its first office in Asia – within the next two months.


According Facebook Blog, "The new offices come at a significant time in our international growth. Seventy percent of the people using Facebook are outside the U.S. and are accessing the service from more than 70 languages. In India alone, we've seen rapid growth and now have more than 8 million people there actively connecting on Facebook with their friends, family, and other people they know, both within India and around the globe."

Facebook had been granted permission by the government to set up an office in a business incubator at the Raheja Mindspace special economic zone (SEZ). The new office will add to Facebook’s operations in Palo Alto (California), Dublin (Ireland) and a recently opened office in Austin (Texas). According to The Economic Times, an Indian government official also said that Facebook has been allotted about 50,000 sq ft space and is going to recruit close to 500 people for running its operations. Facebook, which has nearly 8 million users in India and nearly 500 million users across the globe, would reportedly invest $150 million in the initial phases.

They have recently announced that that they’re planning on opening an office in Hyderabad. This will be their first office in Asia and how lucky are we that they chose little ole India. They’re office is expected to commence operations in the next two months. According to reports, the government i.e. State Information Technology and Communications department have given the company permission to set up shop at the Raheja Mindspace  special economic zone (SEZ). They intend to hire about 500 people to populate this office space. The office is apparently strategically placed to help provide better support to the site and of course it’s millions of users, 8 million of which are in India.

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