I believe this was true in India for a long time too. I used to work in financial services and we outsourced a lot of work to groups in India. While I worked fo

I believe this was true in India for a long time too. I used to work in financial services and we outsourced a lot of work to groups in India. While I worked for this company, we would bring the brightest and best across the pond to work with us in the corporate hq. I was told multiple stories about how people returning from companies that had shrunk, and consequently laid off employees, would face social stigmas and even have trouble finding new work. "laid off" == "fired and thus not good" to cultures that were unfamiliar with the risk taking nature of US business.