{"id":1010182,"date":"2026-05-27T08:54:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010182"},"modified":"2026-05-27T08:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:26:33","slug":"indias-gcc-model-shifts-from-cost-to-capability-as-ai-talent-strains-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/27\/indias-gcc-model-shifts-from-cost-to-capability-as-ai-talent-strains-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s GCC model shifts from cost to capability as AI, talent strains bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BFor two decades, India&#8217;s dominance in global capability centres rested on a simple formula: skilled \u200btalent at scale, at low cost. <\/p>\n<p>India is \u200bnow the world&#8217;s largest GCC hub, with more than 2,100 centres employing 2.36 million people \u200band generating nearly $100 billion in revenue, a 2026 Nasscom-Zinnov report said, adding the &#8220;workforce remains India&#8217;s greatest strength.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Executives at the Reuters summit in Bengaluru echoed that view, saying global firms continue to expand in the world&#8217;s most populous nation because its depth of talent is hard \u200cto match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BFor two decades, India&#8217;s dominance in global capability centres rested on a simple formula: skilled \u200btalent at scale, at low cost. India is \u200bnow the world&#8217;s largest GCC hub, with more than 2,100 centres employing 2.36 million people \u200band generating nearly $100 billion in revenue, a 2026 Nasscom-Zinnov report said, adding the &#8220;workforce remains India&#8217;s greatest strength.&#8221; Executives at the Reuters summit in Bengaluru echoed that view, saying global firms continue to expand in the world&#8217;s most populous nation because its depth of talent is hard \u200cto match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010183,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010182\/revisions\/1010183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}