I am a foreigner who works for an American customer and I freely admit that I am not as productive as one of their in-house developers. This is because of things like communication delays, lack of documentation (of both their code and their business logic and practices) and generally the overhead of being in a separate team.

Now that IBM has more people in India than in the US, maybe they will find that they face the opposite problem: US workers will have to adapt to their Indian counterparts instead of the other way around, so it will be more productive to hire an additional Indian than an additional American.

I did not even want to comment but I have to. You are very xenophobic towards americans. Every developed rich nation has this attitude when it comes to outsourcing and offshoring.

But all of it is just anecdotal evidence (it goes both ways).You are not only forgetting about how economics work but also evidently omitting how that happened that US is so rich and can afford paying such salaries.

I really do not want to elaborate more but todays tech companies create such huge social disparities in India that literally everyone wants to work in IT just to uplift himself from "3rd world poor" to EE standards.

Let's not bring "disparity" into the picture after Nov 8, 2016 :P

I am "xenophobic"? I was born in America and lived there the first 18 years of my life. I'm trying to not merely generalize, and therefore I went out of my way to cite an actual example of the attitude in question.

what are you referring to by "racism"?

whatever it is, perhaps it would be useful to ask yourself if there are other interpretations, as well as why you came to the conclusion you did.