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You have to put things in context here. Companies exist to make money. They have a business build around making money by hiring people at a set upper bound on s
by harichinnan 14y ago
You have to put things in context here. Companies exist to make money. They have a business build around making money by hiring people at a set upper bound on salary. I wish there were more companies that would pay million dollar salaries with bonuses to Software Engineers. Until that happens, a skills shortage means, there's a lack of people who would work at a certain salary range, possessing a certain skillset. We certainly have a skills shortage in software industry.
- zizee 14y agoDon't get me wrong. Companies are acting in a completely rational way. They will work with the levers that they have, and lobbying the government to increase immigration is one of those tools. If they can't employ people profitably, then they won't employ them. But when a companies like Apple, Google and Microsoft, that are making billions in profit each year are claiming they can't find employees, and have been caught colluding to keep salaries down, it rings a little hollow to say that they can't increase salaries to increase demand.