[TulliusCicero]

If you factor in cost of living, the consulting agencies that currently abuse the system will just open up offices in cheap areas.

[davidf18]

Not really, because quality software development generally requires teams to be in close proximity. As has been discovered by many firms, moving operations overseas is "penny wise and pound foolish"

For example, Disney of Florida replaced 250 American IT workers in US using immigrants with H1-B Visas. They in theory could have saved more money by sending that operation overseas but they chose not too.

Computer operations today are way too mission critical to most organizations to risk problems by moving tech overseas at least in operational settings.

[gopalv]

> using immigrants with H1-B Visas

I think that's the problem here - those on H1-B visas aren't immigrants.

It is a dual intent visa and most outsourcing firms keep it strictly in the non-immigrant category.

Until they get a DoL clearance & get into an I-140 approval process, they're "temporary workers" who can be dispensed with any day.

[untog]

The H1B already factors in cost of living (via the proxy of what local salaries are) and we don't see that happening all that much.

[wolfgke]

Which would in my opinion even be a good consequence.