Companies already were shifting work to India. The offshore/onshore cycle has been going on since like the late 90s. The decently skilled ones would get an H1B and get relocated to the United States as a reward/incentive for good work, but in my experience there were plenty of American citizens that could do the same work that they did. Companies preferred H1B’s because they were cheaper and because the company controlled their immigration status so they had huge power over the workers. But honestly in my field the work quality was subpar.
This is just companies crying that they can’t have indentured servants anymore in the US and they have to deal with offshoring again.
Companies already were shifting work to India. The offshore/onshore cycle has been going on since like the late 90s. The decently skilled ones would get an H1B and get relocated to the United States as a reward/incentive for good work, but in my experience there were plenty of American citizens that could do the same work that they did. Companies preferred H1B’s because they were cheaper and because the company controlled their immigration status so they had huge power over the workers. But honestly in my field the work quality was subpar.
This is just companies crying that they can’t have indentured servants anymore in the US and they have to deal with offshoring again.
What I find weird is that there isn’t more outsourcing happening to Latin America which is in the same time zone at least.
Agree. I am not sure why.
I did interview with a company recently that has a development team in Brazil so perhaps it is changing, slowly.