Tackling new H-1B visa rules |
Indian outsourcing giants Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services will hire more engineers from campuses in the United States as they brace themselves for stringent visa norms expected to be unveiled by the new American administration led by Donald Trump. The move marks a change in strategy for the $150-billion Indian outsourcing industry, which until now has mostly relied on hiring large numbers of engineering graduates in India who were then posted to overseas client locations, a model that helped the industry win multi-billion dollar contracts but has also attracted the ire of locals. Recently, Senator Jeff Sessions said that the Donald Trump administration will push for legislative reform to curb what he termed as "abuse of H-1B visas for foreign workers". UB Pravin Rao, chief operating officer at Infosys, said they are now looking at hiring from more colleges in the US. With the (new) visa rules, we they will have to look at building a pyramid there. The offshore-pyramid model, the bedrock of Indian IT`s success, has a simple structure. Low-paid coders, mostly hired straight out of Indian engineering colleges, formed the large base of the pyramid. It now remains to be seen, if Trump will turn out to be as `dangerous` for IT outsourcing industry as he looked during his election campaign.
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