In the most advanced cities in India, American companies are racing to create more university campus abroad: fully employed offices with high -skilled Indian professionals, performing vital functions for international business.
The focus is the most obvious in parts of Bengaluru. APUL NHATA from Rapidai, a medical technology company based in Silicon Valley that uses artificial intelligence to explain brain scanning processes, can look at the office window that it leads in India and see the “companies density” related to its work.
“If I walk half a kilometer, I see Google, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Visa, Samsung and Amazon here,” said Mr. Nahaata, who spent 10 years of his career in California. He was particularly seized for his technology neighbors, but JPMorgan Chase has the largest of these offices, with 55,000 workers spread throughout Bangaluru and four other Indian cities. Even all American retailers such as target and Louie It has centers employing 4000 to 5,000 Indian in Bangaluru.
During the era of President Trump, the United States is creating some of its most important commercial partnerships. Especially angered by the United States’ deficit of $ 46 billion in merchandise trade with India. Mr. Trump also complained about the Indian workers who are not documented.
But the declared policy solutions to Mr. Trump – a higher American tariff aimed at forcing India to reduce commercial barriers, and deporting migrants – will do nothing to slow down the development of the long partnership that links American companies looking for skilled workers abroad and the abundant work group in India.
Twenty years ago, many Americans were afraid that the use of external sources of office jobs for low -wage economics such as India means fewer jobs in the United States. Many types of jobs have moved abroad since then, and many of these jobs have been automatically. But the American economy needs more skilled workers.
Now many American companies find these workers in India. As of 2024, there were about 1,800 foreign companies ’offices in India, owned by hundreds of foreign multinationals-most of them Americans. There are 1.9 million people in India working for foreign companies, and they are expected to join them from 600 to 900,000 others by 2030.
Together, the foreign commercial centers in India won about 65 billion dollars last year, more than the value of American imports of India. By 2030, they are expected to earn $ 100 billion or more. Business centers also appear in other countries, such as Mexico and Poland, but most of them are in India.
Throughout India, these foreigners’ offices are now the main engine of commercial real estate. About 50 news have been created over the past year. Expecting that 100 others will join them during the year 2025.
This is welcome news for India, which needs 10 million new jobs every year just to keep unemployment in choice. Even with the strongest economic growth than any other large country, the huge population of young people is at risk of knees.
The form of these offices has been around at least the 1990s, when international companies in India, which are attracted by the educated middle class that could work for very low wages. As the Internet is shortened from the virtual distance between India and the United States, Americans are aware of workers who suffer from India in remote communication and technical support centers.
The work has changed a lot since those days. Indian wages have risen, and these external subsidiaries are no longer providing low -value services only. They are complete branches of American headquarters, not only settlement foci, not to mention temporary offices that provide the use of external sources of IT services. In fact, this sector announced a reduction in 64,000 jobs in 2024.
While salaries have risen over the years, they are still about a quarter to a third of the equivalent in dollars in the United States. The managers of these offices, known as global power centers, admitted savings, but they said that multinational companies are attracted to the quality and abundance of potential Indian workers.
“Anywhere else can you expand with 2000 engineers, or professionals in marketing, within a year?” One of the CEOs, who asked not to be named, chanted that he was not allowed to speak publicly.
Another point of consensus on the growth of external centers is that Covid-19 played an important role, as in many parts of the office life. Pari Natarajan is the CEO and co -founder of Zinnov, a consultant that helps companies create a store in India. This work has been completed since 2002 and has witnessed successive waves of enthusiasm, the greatest of which began to collapse four years ago.
“During Covid, companies realized that they could have a difference anywhere – anywhere – and then people are equal to each other,” said Mr. Natarajan, who usually works from Manhattan.
Pure Storage, a company that manufactures data storage devices used all over the world, is one of the newcomers here. Its founder, John Coulgerov, the Silicon Valley legend known as Coz, helped the company start at Mountain View, California, in 2009.
Pure’s offices in Bangaluru, on high -minded church street, have a technical feeling in California: seats in the open scheme, espresso machines, screen delegations and tinnitus. The allocated murals refer to Bangaluru and the rest of India. But the office also confirmed the repetition of the exact dimensions of the offices stationed at the Silicon Valley headquarters.
Ajeya Motaganahali has built a pure storage office over the past three years. He said that he is the Vice President-Indians carry leadership positions “at the level of the Vice President” in the centers common. He said that the leadership chain is working all over the world, as lines of reporting from pure storage rise up and down between California and Bangaluru and a third position in Prague.
Ekroop Caur, Secretary of the Karnataka State Government, is responsible for the growth and maintenance of foreign subsidiary companies in Bangaluru. One of its priorities is to help companies find suitable spaces, talent, not only in Bangaluru, which explode in layers, but also in other cities in Karnataka.
External offices centers are filled with technical startups such as Rapidai and Pure Storage, but some esteemed American companies are part of the movement.
Pitney Bowes, founded 105 years ago at Stamford, Conn. , By the man who invented the first postal meter, employ 11,000 people around the world, most of whom are still in the field of shipping. About 85 percent of the charging technology force in India. Pitney Bows began its Indian operations long before the current wave, as it was created in Nuwaida, which is from New Delhi, and Bion, an industrial city near Mumbai.
Achda Jawhar, who was with Beit Bawz, has been working for a decade ago, in the telecommunications team. “I didn’t think I had a global role from India,” said Ms. Johar.
American companies are mainly gathering their powers in India because it has become difficult to find the correct type of workers in the United States. You find studies that A third of all new engineering jobs Go uninterrupted, while approximately 1.2 million Indian graduates with engineering certificates every year. The low -wage American workers, who lost their jobs, were manufacturing work to Asia, They were cut off without re -training.
Deborah Copes, Managing Director of Resources Change, has been working on this type of business, especially in India, since the early 1990s.
“We have an unforgettable trend at the present time, as institutions realize that you can globalization,” said Ms. Copes. She tried to create global centers inside the United States, but she says that “we do not have an education engine” for its employees.
She said: “Can you get 5,000 people know how to do this type of work? You cannot.” “But you can do this in India, and you can do this elsewhere in the world.”