As offshore outsourcing grows, HR tries to measure impact

techtarget ^ | 3-12-2019 | Patrick Thibodeau

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Offshore outsourcing can be a traumatic event for employees -- both for those who lose their jobs and for those who survive. It's HR's job to figure out the real impact it's having on employees -- a task that may benefit from new technology.

President Donald Trump became a harsh critic of the H-1B program during his campaign for president and invited IT workers who had trained visa-holding replacements to speak at campaign rallies. Trump promised to make changes to the H-1B program, and his administration is now denying roughly one in five of the H-1B visas sought by IT services firms.

But the administration's results are mixed. Offshore outsourcing is still growing, and U.S. businesses are still shifting work overseas.

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