Locally outsourced.

• Position: TRIANGLE REGION

Corporate belt tightening is a boon for HCL Technologies and, by association, Cary. The India-based company, which handles outsourced information-technology services such as help-desk support and software development, opened a Cary office in 2008 and announced plans in September to add 1,237 local jobs by 2018 to the 831 it has there, investing $9 million to build a four-story, 125,000-squarefoot building. With North American headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., HCL has more than 8,000 employees in the U.S., which accounts for more than half its nearly $5.4 billion of annual revenue. Expanding in Cary was an easy decision, Senior Corporate Vice President Rajiv Sodhi says. "North Carolina continues to work hard to establish itself as one of the leading states to...