In a recent interview, a top Infosys official told Business Line that the company would hire more laterals in the US, and expects no cutbacks on tech spending t

In a recent interview, a top Infosys official told Business Line that the company would hire more laterals in the US, and expects no cutbacks on tech spending there even as stimulus funding tapers off. I've worked with Indian oursourcing companies before but I wasn't aware the term "laterals" is common vocabulary. Does this mean hiring more US citizens/perm residents to work laterally with the offshore workers? I thought that meant they would place more Indian workers in lateral positions on H1b visas to work with offshore teams.