Stop using H1B visas: Murthy’s advice to Indian IT cos

TIL Desk Business/New Delhi/ Indian software companies need to stop sending people on H1-B visas and focus on local hiring in the US, Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy said today amid rising concerns over Donald Trump administration’s proposals to restrict inflow of foreign workers.

Stating that by and large Indian mindset is always to take the “soft option”, Murthy — one of the pioneers of India’s IT outsourcing industry — said becoming multi-cultural is not easy and is a “very, very hard option”.

“They (Indian software companies) must recruit American residents in the US, Canadians in Canada, British people in Britain etc. That’s the only way, we can become a true multi-national company and in order to do that, we should stop using H1-B visas and sending a large number of Indians to those countries to deliver services,” Murthy told. The proposed overhaul of popular H-1B visa regime by US President Donald Trump has raised concerns among the Indian IT firms.