Infosys plans to hire 10,000 American workers, open four U.S. tech centers

Free market and Free trade doesn't make it no border or no country.

USA is still a country and they can impose certain thing to their advantage if they want to.

If they wish to prioritize their citizens first then so be it.

Also the main point is the abusive H-1B Visa. It is not free market when foreign workers cannot negotiate wage between companies. American citizens cannot compete against a foreign workers when the foreign workers cannot shop for salary.

It's corporate slavery.

> All that will result is moving jobs back and forth not to increase productivity and find market efficiencies, but for political reasons. It will create market inefficiencies, which could (for example) raise costs for Infosys customers (including U.S. customers), reduce Infosys' overall employment, reduce profit for Infosys shareholders, and reduce overall productivity for the economies involved.

> It's surprising how quickly the terms "free market" and "free trade" have disappeared from HN.

You're really just economic arm chairing.

You harp such libertarian things but you don't address the core issue. H1-B visa and those people inabilities to negotiate wage which artificially lower Americans salary (my salary, I've seen it first hand and I've heard from it from my buddies).

Hell I don't even know if you know the issue at all other than using this to harp about libertarian idealism.

> H1B visas were intended to address a shortage of highly skilled tech workers. They were not intended to supplant US workers, nor provide a readily accessible pool of low wage IT workers.

Yes, they were. In a market, a "shortage" is meaningless without reference to a price level, and the only way to address a shortage at any given price level is to add additional supply from sellers willing to sell below what the necessary price would otherwise be for the final quantity traded.

Adding more workers at the "prevailing wage" means increasing the quantity traded without increasing price, which inherently favors the buyers of the good (labor, here) over sellers.

Structurally, the "abuse" by Infosys, et al., and the suppression of wage growth for highly-skilled labor is exactly what H-1B is designed to support, not just a loophole in the design but the fundamental, basic, high-level structure of the program.

The faster body shopping of indian workers to US stops the better. Sadly, due to NRI worship culture many Indians are becoming second rated citizens in their own country.

NRIs are wooed by the goverment and get visa free access and many other rights like NRI bank accounts and have rights to buy property. They live eating noodles in US and come back to India to buy few apartments.

Due to this local citizens themselves are unable to buy property in their own country and have to then resort to send their kids abroad.

For decades many american companies have engaged Indian IT Services companies like Infosys to save on software maintenance costs. Now that there is a wave of economic protectionism across the globe,, many Indian companies have to rethink their strategy. Now is the most opportune moment for Indian IT companies to prove that they are genuinely world class and that they have upped their game in terms of delivering with high quality and skill with a hugely diverse multi cultural, multi national workforce.