America Doesn't Got Talent (H1Bs)

[xoneill]

Everyone's fretting over H1Bs displacing US jobs. H1Bs are not required when they're displacing you via offshoring.

[spiralpolitik]

The common pattern is that the off-shoring company will deploy workers on site for a year to do knowledge transfer and documentation of existing processes so that they can be moved off shore.

Usually (but not always) these workers come into the US on a H-1B visa.

[beardyw]

Nationalism and capitalism make uneasy bedfellows. Are American companies allowed to increase profits by selling abroad, but not allowed to employ abroad? That suggests that foreigners can't sell their skills to the USA.

[xoneill]

Many of these these companies are US only. If many continue doing this, if this trend continues - it's pretty obvious where this goes.