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<p>Managers and senior employees don’t usually move to India. If they are retained, they remain in the United States in nearly all cases. This is not because providing the same salary and benefits is expensive but rather because most Americans naturally are very unfamiliar with India and don’t want to move. Some companies (IBM for example) offered or may offer to transfer you (via “Project Match”) to India to avoid paying severance and to pay “prevailing wages”. </p>
<p>Most of the time offshoring means that H1B workers are brought over and learn work from the American group (usually the American group’s severance packages require that the train these workers). Once the Indians learn how to do the work, the Americans are laid off and the H1B workers return to India and perform the same work. Certainly there are some Americans and foreigners in cities like Bangalore, India but by and large there numbers are quite small.</p>