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Absolutely, it's done all the time. They would come here as business visitors with B-1 visas or with their passports if they are from a visa waiver country (such as the UK). But so there are no issues and no lines are crossed, when they are in the US, they shouldn't be compensated (paid their hourly rate, for example) although their expenses can be covered.

I have found that arranging an interview for the B1-2 visa (which is needed if you're not from an ESTA country, and India is not) is dang near impossible now.

I can’t comment on the legality, but when I was in a penny-pinching org in a big US company we just did these things outside the US because it was cheaper. COVID notwithstanding, UK might be a good option for you.

Interesting. My company is in the immigration space and we were considering a product to help distributed remote startups to organize group "off-sites". If you'd like, please reach out on the email in my profile.