> Companies looking to save money would hire in the foreign country regardless of the new rules. You're going to get people who are already productive for the

> Companies looking to save money would hire in the foreign country regardless of the new rules. You're going to get people who are already productive for the company moving willingly to lower expense parts of the world, while continuing to be identical in disruption to someone moving to Wisconsin. Companies (more importantly managers) do care about hiring locally, since they have a lot of opportunities to on-board, evaluate and guide - however, once they're all baked in, the shift is less of a concern for the companies. "Hiring in a foreign country" is different from "We save 18k/employee if they move to Canada and they want to!".