Google is quietly assembling a massive office complex in India... to get around Trump's H1B visa hikes

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

Google's parent company Alphabet is quietly assembling what could become its biggest overseas expansion yet—a massive office complex in Bangalore that might house 20,000 new employees, Bloomberg reported. The move comes as the Trump administration's proposed H-1B visa fee hikes—potentially reaching $100,000 per application—are making it increasingly expensive to bring Indian engineers to American soil.

According to Bloomberg, Alphabet has leased one office tower and secured options on two more in Alembic City, a development in Bangalore's Whitefield tech corridor. The total space spans 2.4 million square feet. The first tower opens to employees in the coming months, with the remaining two expected to be ready by next year.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-may-have-an-india-plan-to-tackle-h-1b-visa-restrictions/articleshow/127909205.cms

[cachukis]

1. My daughter is an high level attorney within a major

corporation. She has a support team in India. She sends a great deal of her work there as it is done with accuracy, promptly.
I wonder if we are slowly sinking into a second class status with the misdirection of our ideals here.
I sense our ruling class has learned to game the system at our expense.
Maybe it has always been this way, but the higher end earners live in a different world.
Of the 330 million inhabitants, the top 10 % of earners means how many million. That influence is mighty powerful.

[AZJonnie]

2. Sounds like a front for something they already wanted to do

and in fact have been doing for decades: Outsourcing jobs.

Only now, they have this convenient excuse/cover that Trump has thoughtfully provided them.

Now he can turn around and publicly chastise Google (which you be fairly sure he will) so he looks like he gives a fuck about protecting US workers jobs.

And then do absolutely nothing to penalize them for doing so.

Win for everyone but US workers.

[JCMach1]

3. Time for Offshoring and AI taxes

On 'American' corporations

[newdeal2]

4. Trump foolishly moving jobs and money overseas

Stupid man and economic plan.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. The behavior of the free market is remarkably predictable, when you're not stupid.

So of course Trmp is missing a clue that's right in his face.