Desi tech cos creating jobs for Americans

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NEW YORK: Indian companies, which are becoming major players in the International arena, are hiring aggressively in the United States, reversing the earlier trend when they always transferred Indians to work in America on temporary visas. Terming it reverse "offshoring", a new report names India's largest offshoring firm Tata Consultancy Service Ltd (TCS) and software giants Infosys and Wipro among them and saying some American workers laid off are now re-employed in Indian outfits after training in India. "The work we're doing requires more and more knowledge of the customers' businesses, and you want local people to do that," Wipro Chairman Azim H Premji is quoted by Businessweek as saying. The Indian outsourcers are quoted as saying that their US expansion plans predate the latest concerns over immigration and jobs. But they acknowledge the trend might ease tensions as the Senate mulls regulations that would require companies applying for H-1B visas temporary working papers for foreigners -- to try hiring Americans first.