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by nradov 3317 days ago
American firms learned that once they have thousands of resources in India it's more cost effective to just hire them as direct employees instead of going through an outsourcing company. In the long run this probably works out better for everyone, except the owners of the outsourcing companies.
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>it's more cost effective to just hire them as direct employees

it also makes it easier to bring them later (after 1 year) into US on L1 without all these limitation of H1 like prevailing wage, yearly cap, spouse of L1 can work, GC seems to be easier (at least that seemed to be the case 10 years ago when I last paid attention to immigration)