Software company's response to Australian government abolishing migrant visas

Re:Software company's response to Australian government abol... by catmanjan on Wednesday April 19, 2017 @11:10PM (#14153617)

As sanswork said, easy to get new devs, but as soon as they've put in a few years it's very easy to go out on your own or go overseas.

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Re:Software company's response to Australian government abol... by hiram112 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @02:07AM (#14154333)

So what? You'll have to compete?

You've gotten so used to your cheap labor, indentured workforce,that you can't even contemplate employees participating in a free market?

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Re:Software company's response to Australian government abol... by sanswork on Thursday April 20, 2017 @03:12AM (#14154577)

There are 10 people working that can do the job there industry needs 15. How do you get the extra 5 just by increasing salaries?

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Re:Software company's response to Australian government abol... by catmanjan on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:09AM (#14155099)

That's globalization I guess, an extreme example is: would you blame a nation in poverty struggling for existence in the modern world for not attracting good techos?

As for contractors, all's fair in the free market except when contracting to government who are blind to /real/ value due to a range of bureaucratic reasons.

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