Indian outsourcers employed 107,000 staff in the US last year. A study by the U.S National Association of Software and Services Companies also revealed that 175,000 other jobs were created indirectly by the outsourcing.

Indian IT and business process outsourcing employs around 2.5 million, and the study revealed that the number of US staff employed has increased to 30% from less than 10% four years ago. Nasscom President, Som Mittal, also stated that local hiring in the US has more than doubled in the last five years.

Mittal stated that Indian companies are not only creating jobs in the US but also investing in training schemes and other activities designed to enhance local workforces.

The study comes in to the run up to the US presidential election, and looks to defend offshoring in the US, which had an unemployment rate of 8.3 million in February.