Janie James says she was cool at first when Indian outsourcinggiant Infosys Ltd. approached her about a job near Atlanta, eventhough she was unemployed. She didn't know much about the company,and it seemed a step down from her old vice-president post atPrimerica Inc.

In the end, she decided she could use experience gleaned fromher work at life insurer Primerica and another stint at a financialinvestment company to help Infosys build its insurance outsourcingbusiness. Now James is an operations manager at the Bangalore,India, company's first predominantly U.S.-staffed center, whichopened in April.

“They saw this was a city with a lot of people who were out ofwork and had the skills they needed for this center,” she said.“Anything that can be done to decrease unemployment is a greatthing.”