Business Strategy
Apr 12 2007, Balendu

Citigroup Inc, the world’s largest financial services firm, has announced that it will eliminate 17,000 jobs or almost 5 per cent of its total global workforce and plans to move 9,500 positions to India and other low-cost locations. The decision has...

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