BENGALURU - INDIA : SKILLED YOUNG professionals lure U.S. companies to base operations in India and abroad.

In India's most advanced cities, American companies are racing to set up more and bigger offshore campuses; fully staffed offices with highly skilled Indian professionals, performing functions vital to global business.

The concentration is most stark in bits of Bengaluru, formerly called Bangalore. Apul Nahata of RapidAI, a Silicon Valley medical technology company that uses artificial intelligence to interpret brain scans, can look out the window of the office he leads in India and see a '' density of companies '' relevant to his work.

'' IF I WALK a half-kilometer, I see Google, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Visa Samsung and Amazon right here,'' said Mr. Nahata, who spent 10 years of his career in California.

He is especially tuned in to his neighbors in tech, but JPMorgan Chase has the biggest of these offices, with 55,000 workers spread across Bengaluru and four other Indian Cities.  

Even all-American retailers like Target and Lowe's have centers employing 4,000 to 5,000 Indians in Bengaluru.

TWENTY YEARS ago, many Americans feared that the outsourcing of office jobs to lower-wage economies like India would mean fewer jobs in the United States.

Many kinds of jobs have moved overseas since then, and many of those have since been automated.  But the U.S. economy needs more skilled workers.

Many U.S. companies are finding those workers in India. As of 2024, there were about 1,800 offshore corporate offices in India, owned by hundreds of foreign-based multinational companies - most of them Americans.

There are 1.9 million people in India working for foreign companies, with 600,000 to 900,000 more expected to join them by 2030.

TOGETHER, the offshore business centers in India earned about $65 billion last year, more than the American imports to India.

By 2030, they are expected to earn $100 billion or more. The business centers are springing up in other countries, like Mexico and Poland, but most are in India.

ACROSS INDIA, foreign-owned offices are the primary driver of commercial real-estate. About 50 new ones were established over the past year. This year 100 more are expected to join them.

This is Welcome news for India, which needs 10 MILLION new jobs each year, just to keep unemployment in check.

Even with stronger economic growth than any other large country's, India's enormous population of  young people is in danger of falling behind.

The model for these offices has been around since at least the 1990s, where international companies started trickling into India, attracted by an educated middle class that could work for very low wages.

As the internet shortened the virtual distance between India and the United States, Americans became familiar with Indian-accented workers at call centers and faraway tech support.

The business has changed a lot since those days. Indian wages have picked up, and those offshore subsidiaries are no longer providing only low-value services.

They are full-fledged branches of American headquarters, not just outposts. In fact, the information technology support sector announced a reduction of 64,000 jobs in 2024.

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