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Infosys to hire 10,000 US workers

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Infosys to hire 10,000 US workers

Reputed IT company Infosys will hire 10,000 US workers in the next 2 years following to the Indian IT firms are unfairly taking jobs away from Americans by misusing H1B visas. This news made headlines all over the world, as post Trump, it was widely feared that people from other nations might lose jobs in US.

The Donald Trump administration that the company and other outsourcing firms are unfairly taking jobs away from US workers. Infosys employs about 200,000 people around the world, will expand its local hiring in the US while adding four hubs to research technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

The first location will open in Indiana in August 2017 and is expected to create 2,000 jobs for American workers by 2021, the company said.

As Trump has been taking several steps to ensure that Americans get jobs, which were hitherto enjoyed by other countries and in the wake of restrictions on H1B visas, Infosys’s decision to hire 10,000 Americans is seen as major change in the direction.

“Infosys is committed to hiring 10,000 American technology workers over the next two years to help invent and deliver the digital futures for our clients in the US.

Learning and education, along with cultivating top local and global talent, have always been the core of what Infosys brings to clients. It is what makes us a leader in times of great change.

In helping our clients improve their business and pursue new kinds of opportunities, we are really excited to bring innovation and education in a fundamental and massive way to American workers.

New advances in technology- artificial intelligence, in particular- are radically transforming our world, and it is within our reach to learn these new technologies and to be the innvotars and entrepreneurs who bring solutions based on these technologies to our clients in all industries,” said Vishal Sikka, Chief Executive Officer, Infosys in a press release on Tuesday.

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