{"id":138019,"date":"2025-03-16T19:21:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/accounting\/a-top-35-firm-is-talking-about-making-their-india-staff-partners-now\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T19:21:34","slug":"a-top-35-firm-is-talking-about-making-their-india-staff-partners-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=138019","title":{"rendered":"A Top 35 Firm Is Talking About Making Their India Staff Partners Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Houston-based Weaver (IPA Top 100 #31 with a mere $328 million in revenue) has been busy in India. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/houston\/news\/2025\/03\/13\/weaver-accounting-firm-opens-offices-india.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to <em>Houston Business Journal<\/em><\/a>, they\u2019re about to get busier:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Weaver opened three offices in India in January and will open its fourth location in the country this month. The company has about 165 employees in India, representing about 10% of its current total workforce. Weaver plans to double that proportion to 20% in the coming years, CEO John Mackel said.<\/p>\n<p>The Houston firm began considering an international expansion four years ago to have greater access to low-cost labor, a strategy competitors have employed for years, Mackel said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nice to see the real reason why firms are doing this front and center in a business publication for once. Usually there\u2019s a paragraph or two about the so-called accountant shortage, so rarely do you see a tacit admission that they did it because it\u2019s cheap.<\/p>\n<p>The firm currently has offices in the Indian cities of Kochi, Coimbatore, Bengaluru, and Chennai.<\/p>\n<p>As mentioned in the headline, Weaver is keeping the partner track open for India staff. \u201cWe feel like if people perform well, they deserve those opportunities,\u201d said COO David Rook, the Vasco da Gama of Weaver\u2019s India expedition. \u201cThat career path will go a long way in retaining people,\u201d he told HBJ. \u201cWe don\u2019t want the India team just to be doing the lower-skilled tasks; we want to develop them like we develop the U.S. employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Remember just a few years ago we were all like <em>haha wouldn\u2019t it be WILD to have senior managers in India<\/em>!? like that was the most absurd thing you could imagine? Now they\u2019re talking about making them partners.<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston-based Weaver (IPA Top 100 #31 with a mere $328 million in revenue) has been busy in India. According to Houston Business Journal, they\u2019re about to get busier: Weaver opened three offices in India in January and will open its fourth location in the country this month. The company has about 165 employees in India, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11759],"tags":[4524,8707,2167,16506,8631,3559,58969,213,46930],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-138019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accounting","tag-firm","tag-india","tag-making","tag-partners","tag-staff","tag-talking","tag-the-partner-track","tag-top","tag-weaver"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Top 35 Firm Is Talking About Making Their India Staff Partners Now - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=138019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Top 35 Firm Is Talking About Making Their India Staff Partners Now - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Houston-based Weaver (IPA Top 100 #31 with a mere $328 million in revenue) has been busy in India. 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