Collabera

Collabera Inc is an American company headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey that provides professional information technology recruiting, staffing, consulting, and business services to companies worldwide.[4] Collabera is the largest privately held technology company in New Jersey, by revenue, with $525 million in revenue for 2015 and approximately 4,200 employees throughout their New Jersey offices.[5]

Collabera Inc ( Planet Asia )
TypePrivate
IndustryInformation Technology, Staffing
Founded1991[1]
HeadquartersBasking Ridge, New Jersey, United States
Number of locations
60 +
Key people
Hiten Patel,
(Chairman & CEO)
ServicesIT Services, Enterprise Software
Revenue US$ 856 million(2019)[2]
Number of employees
16,000 +[3]
Websitewww.collabera.com

Collabera's North American headquarters is in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, while its Asia Pacific headquarters is in Vadodara, Gujarat India. Collabera has offices in the United States, India, the Philippines, Singapore, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Malaysia.[6]

History

Originally under the name GCI (Global Consultants, Inc.), Collabera opened for business in 1991, providing information technology services to companies worldwide.[7] The company was purchased by Hiten Patel in 1997 for $2 million and grew into a $520 million company by 2014.[8] In 2007, GCI began a series of company acquisitions, including IVL India (for SAP Services).,[9] Planet Asia,[10] and Blue Hammock (for Strategic Consulting).[11]

In 2008, GCI changed its name to Collabera.[12][13]

In 2012, Collabera began a period of corporate expansion and reorganization as their IT services wing became a $100 million section of the company, which was by then worth $500 million overall. The company built a third development center (along with existing ones in Bangalore and Trivandrum) named "Collabera House" in Vadodara, India, with plans to open another in the country.[14] The following year, Raj Mamodia was appointed as Collabera's new CEO.[15] Then, in 2014, Collabera spun off its IT services wing into the subsidiary company Brillio, while Collabera retained its staffing service business. Raj Mamodia was transitioned to the role of CEO of Brillio, and Hiten Patel resumed his previous role as Collabera's CEO.[16][17]

On 1 July 2020, Collabera appointed its new CEO Karthik Krishnamurthy. In this position he succeeds Hiten Patel; Patel has transitioned to board member.[18]

YouTube content moderation

The video sharing website YouTube has used Collabera as a contractor to hire content moderators, who review videos to determine if their content violates YouTube's content policies. A September 2020 lawsuit filed against YouTube included reports by a former Collabera employee who said that she was given little to no mental health training or support and made to sign an NDA before being shown examples of content that appears in the review queues. She reported being made to regularly exceed YouTube's stated limited of four hours per day of viewing graphic content.[19][20]

References
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  14. "Collabera eyes expansion in IT solutions". Business-standard.com. 2012-01-30. Retrieved 2012-10-10.
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  19. Vincent, James (September 22, 2020). "Former YouTube content moderator sues the company after developing symptoms of PTSD". The Verge. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
  20. Elias, Jennifer (September 22, 2020). "Former YouTube content moderator describes horrors of the job in new lawsuit". CNBC. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
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