Elf Keeper

Oil on canvas 8″ x 10″

Infosists, the giant Indian outsourcing firm is now innovating a scheme that will mean call centres being run by elves.

Infosists have spent $1 billion dollars this year recruiting elves from Eastern Europe, Mexico and China to study in their purpose made elf university. Other companies are doing the same in America, Finland and Portugal.

The aim is that the elves will be so skilled they will be able to take complex tasks from multinational firms, pull them apart and put them together more efficiently in a fraction of the time it would take humans.

The elves will reach a stage where this can be done anywhere in the world.

This ability to train and export elves to this level is unprecedented say economists.
This idea has been caused by two trends:
The first is the demand for skills in India is sending salaries skyrocketing. Programmers in Bangalore often ask 75% the salary of programmers in Silicon Valley.
The second trend is Indian companies face a "skills crunch".
Although universities produce millions of graduates every year only a fraction are considered good enough for companies like Infosists.

Although elves are more skilled and intelligent than humans they are still fighting for equal rights to similar wages. Infosists believes they do not need as much money because they don't need much food and can happily live in tiny houses or underneath large mushrooms at the bottom of the garden as in childrens` story books.

The elf university will produce 50,000 pairs of skilled hands per year.

India's surging economy is a victim of its own success.

If the call centres continue to be run by full size humans, they will need to cover millions of square metres and there is not even enough carpenters, plumbers and electricians to do the job.
Elves take up less space and are easier to export around the world as you can fit 2 or 3 into one aeroplane seat.

Economists see it as a good way of staying ahead of countries like China.