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Coronavirus scare: IT firms stare at delay in bagging large contracts

According to outsourcing advisory experts, severe restrictions on the mobility of human resources as well as the likely delay in decision making by the clients are seen as the key reasons

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All IT services companies have already widened their travel restrictions from China to many other nations, including Italy, France, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Several of them even have imposed a restriction on non-essential travel to the US, which accounts for 60 per cent the revenues of Indian firms.

Debasis Mohapatra Bengaluru

3 min read Last Updated : Mar 08 2020 | 10:51 PM IST

Winning of large deals and their execution by IT services firms are likely to face delay in the first half of this year due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

According to outsourcing advisory experts, severe restrictions on the mobility of human resources as well as the likely delay in decision making by the clients are seen as the key reasons.

“Larger transformation deals take a lot of time for execution and focus. Due to coronavirus, it is clear that the teams are going to be distracted for at least the next quarter. Hence, these big deals, which are

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