Sweet Home

Cognizant Technology Solutions, a call center and business services firm with offices everywhere from Argentina to Thailand, believes in Tampa.

So much so that in early September, the New Jersey-based Fortune 500 multinational opened its fourth location in the Tampa Bay area. The move created 75 jobs.

Cognizant employs nearly 2,000 people in Florida, and more than half those jobs are based in Tampa. In 2014, the company made a commitment to hire 412 full-time workers in the region over the next four years. Eric Westphal, Cognizant's senior director of global corporate affairs, says that goal has been met in a little more than two-and-a-half years.