…By opening tech centers in US and hiring US talent.

Traditionally, Indian companies have focused more on either importing cheap labor from India using the skilled worker visa (a lot of them even come on Business visa and do billing but thats another story) as the statistics have shown or by totally off-shoring the job to low cost development centers back home.

In a changing trend, TCS, the largest technology services company from India plans to open a development center in a former paper plant in Cincinnati, Ohio. To staff the site, the company additionally announced it has plans to recruit about 1000 people. Talent would be primarily scouted from the mid-west. This would make it one of the largest U.S based development centers by an Indian company.

Perhaps more such examples of local hirings would help deflect some of the criticism the Indian companies have been gathering lately about ridding America of high paying tech jobs, which consequentially also resulted in less number CS major seats getting filled up in colleges.

In related news, Bill Gates recently proffered his views to a senate committee hearing about skilled worker visa reforms. Affirming his traditional position of supporting an increase in the number of such visas, Bill Gates thinks there is dire shortage of skilled manpower in America and if the country is to maintain its numero uno position, needs to act fast on this.

Read more about reverse outsourcing from an Economics Times article from here.

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My comment about Indian companies innovating is in humor. Hoping nobody takes offense.

A website with a hifalutin sounding name called Intelligententerprise has published an article titled, India outsources to US tech workers. The author has basically gone ga-ga over a spate of recent business deals won by American companies in India and how this is “supposedly” going to benefit the US tech workers. And to totally rub it in, he is wondering if the American workers are up for this “cultural” and “geographical” challenge.

What a hoot.

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According to the latest industry report by NASSCOM, India’s revenue from back-office outsourcing is expected to surge nearly five-fold to $50 billion by 2012 despite a possible recession in the key United States market.

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BANGALORE, India (AFP) — Several Indian information-technology companies are ordering cans of pepper spray for their female call centre employees to use against possible attackers, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

The move follows the rape-murder last month of a 22-year-old call centre employee in the western city of Pune by a company driver, leading to fears of safety in an industry that employs 1.6 million people.

A similar incident took place in this southern Indian city, the hub of the 50 billion dollar IT industry, in December 2005.

“Several companies have approached us asking us to deliver the product,” the Bangalore Mirror quoted Rana Singh, an executive at a company that makes a self-defence pepper spray, as saying.

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