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by purity_resigns 3425 days ago
A lot of the diversity data that companies have put together recently doesn't show the magnitude to which companies depend on non-citizen labor.
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most of them are coming in as contractors via 1099. The Customer (Amazon, Microsft et al) see it as an invoice and may be paying a market rate, but the H1-B sees very little on the W2.

I have witnessed two companies simply cut an entire IT Department (The Run, or Support Org) and insource/outsource it.