Re:Facebook: greater than 15% of employees are H1Bs
by reaperducer on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:19AM
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Happened to me last year, too. And it's not just big companies. In my case it was a firm with only about 30 employees. But outsourcing (in my case to India) has become so easy that companies of almost any size can do it.
Re:Facebook: greater than 15% of employees are H1Bs
by davidw on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:44AM
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H1B is someone coming here, not outsourcing. Fewer H1B's probably means more outsourcing, for companies who are just looking at cutting costs and not looking at quality a lot. Not that there aren't great people to outsource work to, but we all know the kind of company we're talking about that isn't seeking that.
Re:Facebook: greater than 15% of employees are H1Bs
by stevenwoo on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:44AM
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Usually companies have a severance package with a non disclosure so it's going to have be bad enough for people to sue for it to make the news like Disney and the 250 IT workers in Florida.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/disney-...
Re:Facebook: greater than 15% of employees are H1Bs
by HaloZero on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:09AM
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I mean not really hard data but UCSF did it at least.
http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/03/after-pink-slips-ucsf-...
Re:Facebook: greater than 15% of employees are H1Bs
by stevenwoo on Thursday April 20, 2017 @05:36PM
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news article today with lots more examples - the rise in companies that specialize in just this tactic should give a clue to it's pervasiveness.
http://www.theverge.com/2017/4/20/15370248/trump-h-1b-visa-r...
This is indeed ridiculous. But how often does that happen? More specifically, how many companies go to the trouble of hiring H1B workers in lieu of local workers and then make the current workers train the replacements?
if the worker being trained was actually a contractor for one of those big indian IT companies, then it makes more sense.