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Body shops? Does that mean staffing agencies?
by sampl 8y ago
Body shops? Does that mean staffing agencies?
- justboxing 8y agoCorrect. The term 'Body Shop' came about in India in the late 1990s when Middle-men Indian staffing companies with shell LLCs in US would advertise and hire Y2K programmers from India. I think they were called 'Body Shops' because they would literally hire 'bodies' in India, apply for their H1Bs and get approval (back in Bill Clinton days it was very fast and easy), bring them over and shop these bodies out to American clients. In some sense, you could say this was 'Programmer Trafficking' It's not the 'Body Shop' in the American sense, which is an Auto repair shop lol.