re: The H1-B visa ban is dumb.

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I don't have a specific problem with outsourcing, though I'm not a fan of it. If enough companies do that, it will increase the cost of the service in India and similar countries (already has, I think).

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I've not seen this....and the company I work for just hired one at a fraction of the cost of a regular employee

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There is also a noticeable different in average quality of service in those offshoring scenarios too.

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This is changing because it is getting so competitive at least in some AOEs.

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It's not the same at all.

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How so. The (let's call them a contractor for ease of use) contractor sits in the organization under a manager that also contains other regular employees. He gets his assignments the same way (certainly now with COVID) and it evaluated based on the same criteria.

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They also consume services which cost tax dollars to provide.

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Right but as much tax dollars as they consume the company pays that much in benefits and other costs that go back into the general economy. This is not the case on a contractor.


The bottom line here (and a lot of companies are starting to see it I think) the contingent worker route is the real route to go to save money over regular employees.

Disney replaced a lot of their employees with offshore resources in IT not that long ago.....same story for Amedisys, a big home health firm, in Baton Rouge.