As the US makes it harder and more costly for companies to hire foreign workers on H-1 B visas, Google is quietly deciding where its future workforce will be based. Instead of waiting on visas and approvals, the tech giant is placing a bigger bet on India, starting with a massive expansion plan in Bengaluru that could eventually house as many as 20,000 employees, Bloomberg reports. At the centre of this plan is Alembic City in Whitefield, one of Bengaluru’s busiest tech corridors. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, has already leased one office tower here and secured options on two more.
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