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company is domiciled in Dublin, Ireland, but a majority of its
more than 380,000 employees are in India.
IT services companies came under the spotlight after Trump said
that his administration would focus on creating more jobs for
U.S. workers, who had been affected by the outsourcing of jobs
abroad.
Major IT service companies, particularly those based in India,
use H-1B visas to fly engineers to the United States to service
clients, but some opponents argue they are misusing the program
to replace U.S. jobs.
Accenture said on Friday it would invest $1.4 billion to train
its employees and would open 10 innovation centers in some U.S.
cities.
The newly added jobs will raise the company's U.S. workforce by
30 percent to more than 65,000 by the end of 2020, the company
said.
The U.S. business accounted for 46 percent of the company's
full-year revenue for the year ended Aug. 31.
(Reporting by Sruthi Shankar and Anya George Tharakan in
Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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