Premji, who is Member of the Board at Wipro, said Wipro currently has a workforce of over 14,000 employees in the US and 58% of those are locals. Under the Donald Trump administration, there is heightened scrutiny of the H1B work visa programme, which several lawmakers allege is being abused to replace Americans with foreign workers. In June last year, Wipro said in a press release that locals formed over 50% of its US workforce. During the past decade, Wipro said it has invested over two billion dollars in the United States, according to the company press release. Premji added that Wipro has been hiring from campuses in the US for two years now and plans to scale that going forward.

Source: dna May 28, 2018 06:43 UTC