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All outsourcing that could have happened has already happened. No matter what people say about H1Bs undercutting salaries they are still paid much more than equ
by pandaman 7y ago
All outsourcing that could have happened has already happened. No matter what people say about H1Bs undercutting salaries they are still paid much more than equivalent employees overseas. Why wait for visas to become scarce to move the business overseas and save tons of money?
It was huge in the late 90s-early 2000s and partly explains the current situation with the lack of programmers since everybody told their kids that software engineering jobs will all be gone by the time the graduate with their, then useless, CS degree.
It appears the efficacy of outsourcing had been overestimated a bit and many jobs had been "re-shored" since then. And yes, there is still substantial outsourcing business I just don't see how it can expand any more.