Since its inception, the outsourcing has come through a lot of changes. Its evolution depends on the number of the factors like how the market reacts, government intervention, partnership and geographical positioning to name a few. In the business environment which is crucial to its survival, the industry adapts to changes. The India’s IT-BPO trade body, the NASSCOM issued the following statement. The protectionist overtures of the US government has got the Indian business process outsourcing firms scurrying to gain its favor by revealing plans o increase their onsite presence. The Infosys Technologies Limited is planning to send about 5 percent to 10 percent of its workforce to the onsite center in the next few years. By the company’s intent to chase the onsite component of their global customer’s business processing deal. There is also a political angle to it.
To address their clients immediate needs, the Infosys strategy make sense, considering the fact that one of the issues offshore providers face is the lack of the onsite presence. The NASSCOM’s announcement came in the response to a proposed bill to amend the H-1B na L-1 visa program. The US senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley introduced the bill. The senators proposed that the employers wanting to hire H-1B guest workers that should first make a good faith attempt to hire the qualified American worker. The bill is aimed improving the capacity of the department of Labor to regulate fraud that allows US firms tohire foreign workers even when there are qualified US workers available.
To cut costs, it may sound that anti-outsourcing, but the proposed bill also suggests that it is intended to decrease US unemployment rate while sustaining the company needs. This means that the foreign firm including the Indian players working on the projects in the US would have to maintain a minimum 50 percent ration of the local workers. The proposed bill passed, it has the potential to change the ration of the offshore to onshore workforce, the Information Technology outsourcing firms currently have an onsite projects in the US done by about 80 percent of H-1B and L-1 visa holders and employs less than 20 percent locals. The US firms are not the only once hiring guests workers, the UK based Llods Banking Group is also reportedly replacing a local workers with the Indian staff.
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