Indian IT major Infosys to hire 10,000 local workers in U.S.

India's second biggest outsourcer Infosys said Tuesday that it would hire some 10,000 American workers over the next two years in the United States.

It will also set up four technology centres there as part of a plan to spruce up local hiring in that country and tide over H1-B visa issues.

"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 United States," Infosys' CEO Vishal Sikka said in a statement.

For the 10,000 jobs in the United States, Infosys said that they were for experienced technology professionals and recent graduates from major universities, and local and community colleges.

The new jobs would be a miniscule part of the southern Indian city of Bengaluru-headquartered Infosys's workforce of 200,000.

The move is also seen as an attempt to tide over H1-B visa-related issues in the United States where Indian IT majors have become political targets for allegedly eating up into jobs of American workers by flying in foreign workers on the temporary visas to service their clients in the country.

Infosys is the second-largest Indian IT services company by 2016 revenues, and the largest employer of H-1B visa professionals in the United States. On January 12, 2017, its market capitalisation was 34.38 billion U.S. dollars. Endit