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I'm confused why they're complaining to bloomberg & not bothering to put ads in some nearby towns/cities. I imagine there's no shortage of low-skill workers av

• viraptor 9y ago
  I get the sentiment, but from TFA: > including the costs of the newspaper ads they have to take out as part of the process, plus (...), they’ve already spent thousands of dollars they won’t get back.
  • basseq 9y ago
    From the article, H1-B costs an estimated $2,500/person, plus flight and lodging. Let's pretend all 6 people Pentagoet wants to hire are staying in the mentioned apartment ($1,200/mo). Assuming a 40 hour work week, they could increase the hourly wage by $4+/hr. and spend the same amount of money. That's a ~50% increase from minimum wage. Now I feel for the business in this particular case. They had a process, they followed it, spend their money, and got staff. Now the process has changed, but they've already spent the money. It's a sunk cost. That sucks.