India’s business solutions software, Zoho, has opened its new office in Adelaide, South Australia.
The company has currently employed 18 staff members – 12 working in the Adelaide office and 6 remotely from home.
It is reported that Zoho is recruiting more staff and aims to create 50 jobs in Adelaide over the next three years.
In November 2023, South Australia’s Minister for Trade and Investment Nick Champion had met with Zoho representatives in India during a trade mission.
Mr Champion saw the enormous impact of India’s global tech company and observed:
“South Australia’s hi-tech ecosystem is well-placed to provide business opportunities for Zoho to grow here. South Australia has made a name for itself around the world within the creative and critical technologies sectors, which is evident by the numbers of companies attracted to the state over the last few years.”
Zoho looked at Sydney and Melbourne as potential Australian office locations before deciding on Adelaide.
Zoho’s regional manager for Australia and New Zealand Rakesh Prabhakar told InDaily that opening a new office in Adelaide was a conscious decision.
“When we were small what we realised was it’s difficult to go out and hire and retain employees in larger cities. It made a lot of sense for us to go to smaller cities, wherein people are leaving such cities where…there are amazing educational institutions, there is amazing infrastructure, but then they are leaving these cities and moving to the larger cities only for employment.”
Prabhakar added:
“What we realised was employees are happier when they stay closer to their families, so this gave us validation that happy employees stay longer with us. The longer an employee stays [and] the happier the employee is, it helps the business immensely because the knowledge pool that an employee builds goes a long, long way.”
Mr Prabhakar said that Zoho is established in the Australian market and is growing rapidly.
“We are at a sweet point where we provide a lot of value to our customers. In the current market quite a few of our customers are moving away from competitors such as Microsoft or Salesforce and are looking at us as an alternative.”
Founded in Chennai, India, Zoho’s business solutions software is used by more than 700,000 businesses across 150 countries. it employs over 15,000 people around the world and has more than 100 million users of its applications.
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