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Re:San Francisco university lays off IT workers, jobs head t... by Clanan on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @10:09AM (#13764222)
A few reasons which may or may not apply to this situation. I don't agree with all of them, but they're worth a discussion I suppose.

* The "cheaper" country has fewer regulations. e.g. sweatshop labor that the local workforce can't compete with.

* The organization profits from the local community, its regulations, and populace but doesn't "give back" through jobs, etc.

* The notion of patriotism: as a community, we should put our interests first (and other countries will do the same). Obviously this is a waaaay bigger topic than can be addressed in a bullet point.

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Re:San Francisco university lays off IT workers, jobs head t... by randcraw on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @10:23AM (#13764356)
Not to mention the sub-standard-vs-US working conditions HCL has in India. Outsourcing to a sweatshop is bad karma.
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Re:San Francisco university lays off IT workers, jobs head t... by pm90 on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @10:53AM (#13764656)
A lot of the wealth in the west was created in some rather dubious ways viz. colonies and slavery. I wonder whether that wealth would carry "bad karma" as well.

The simple truth is that without laws explicitly forbidding businesses from engaging in such practices, the market WILL force them to engage in them. So we change the market using regulations to prevent such sort of a thing.

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Re:San Francisco university lays off IT workers, jobs head t... by ashwinaj on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @02:02PM (#13767041)
Do you have any source of these sub standard working conditions? I did a quick google search on HCL offices: https://www.google.com/search?q=hcl+offices&client=ubuntu&hs...

Or are you talking about work culture?

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Re:San Francisco university lays off IT workers, jobs head t... by robert_foss on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @05:12PM (#13769014)
Sub-standard working conditions are a thing in the US too. A common thing.

Worker rights are overall very weak in most industries across the US.

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Re:San Francisco university lays off IT workers, jobs head t... by calvinbhai on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:56PM (#13777036)
Well,

* The "cheaper" country has super cheap healthcare options, where employer is not required to subsidize the premiums.

Could that be the reason why they dont lay off older employees in these "cheaper" countries with fewer regulations?

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