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by strict9 268 days ago
Tech employers are saying it's efficiencies gained in AI that led to layoffs for the past few years. Yet they have increased headcount in engineering offices in other countries at the same time.

This is also happening at small and midsize companies that ship software. It's easy to find this information, particularly for the largest companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.

Like the article states, there are a number of confounding factors. But it's not AI, no matter how much founders and CEOs want it to be true.

It's the pursuit of lower cost employees.
1 comments
jewelry 268 days ago
That’s because the globally talent works much longer hours at lower salary while in US you have to pay 100k for each h1b. Let’s get rid of the ridiculous administration first and then talk about greedy ceo.
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seneca 268 days ago
Having foreign workers filling the jobs for American companies working on US soil and sending the money home is no better for Americans than having them working in their own countries.

Say what you will about this administration, God knows they have flaws. However, they're the only one that has taken steps to actually attempt to help American workers in a generation or more. Every other one has been a revolving door of shipping jobs out or importing cheap foreign labor in.

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ponector 268 days ago
>>sending the money home is no better for Americans than having them working in their own countries

I'm sure they are spending majority of their income locally, the same way as American citizens: buying chinese goods and mexican food.

Us government is losing tons of taxes if H1B immigrant is replaced with overseas worker.

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aleph_minus_one 268 days ago
> while in US you have to pay 100k for each h1b.

This is rather evidence that this requirement (at least sometimes) does what it should do: it disincentivizes US branches of companies to hire foreigners in the USA by making such hires more expensive.

Thus, instead foreign branches of US companies hire foreigners. Why the complaints: now in the USA less foreigners get hired instead of US citizens, exactly what was requested.

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