India 'big hub' for blue collar economy: Fountain CEO Sean Behr
Fountain, a provider of hiring automation software for frontline workforces, considers India as one of the «big hubs» in this space, a top company official said. The company is present in the US, Western Europe — UK, France, Germany as well as in South Africa, India, New Zealand and a few other countries. «The big hubs are India, UK and France,» Founder and CEO of the company Sean Behr told PTI.
«Fountain focuses exclusively on the blue collar and gray collar workforce. A vast majority of people… don't ...do PowerPoint or Excel, they do things on the frontlines of our economy,» Behr said, adding that hiring and retaining workers in the blue and grey collar economy has never been more difficult.
India is the «most natural place» to invest, and to expand as there is a huge opportunity and growth rate in the blue/grey collar market, Behr noted.
«China has some similar dynamics, but obviously there's geopolitical challenges, while in India you have a bigger population and a very good place for technology to invest in this market,» he said.
Behr pointed out that India has more people in the workforce with a payment-enabled smartphone as compared to the 330 million total population of the United States.
«With 8 million manual informal processes, there is absolutely no way to scale to 25 million workers and still be using manual processes.
