Posted on 06/26/2020 1:41:33 PM PDT by NobleFree
In June, the US government suspended H-1B and other work visas for the rest of 2020. Hundreds of thousands of foreigners will no longer be able to attain work in the US as a result.
This halt will deal a one-two punch to employers of computer-related occupations, which includes jobs such as software developers and computer systems analysts. First, people in this field receive the overwhelming majority of H-1B visas. Out of the nearly 400,000 H-1B petitions approved in fiscal year 2019, about two-thirds were in that line of work. Most went to software developers.
Second, computer-related workers are the one group for which the labor market will soon become tight again. When that happens, new foreign workers may be sorely missed. […]
Before Covid-19, the unemployment rate for these workers was the lowest in recorded history. In the 10 years prior to the pandemic, the number of computer-related workers soared by 62%, while the number in all other fields grew by just 13%.
And since February, when the pandemic started impacting the US economy, the rise in the unemployment rate for computer and mathematical occupations was smaller than for other occupation groups (see charts 1 and 2). While the unemployment rate for all workers and for the management and professional group reached the highest rates in recorded history, the increase for computer and mathematical workers was more modest, though still significant. […]
Beyond the short-term recruiting impact, reducing the number of foreign workers could have major implications on US innovation. A recent article concludes that immigrants are responsible for 30% of aggregate US innovation since 1976, partly due to their own innovation, but mostly due to the positive impact they are having on US natives’ innovation. Immigration grows the pie.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
You are correct, it’s a total lie. I’ve worked in Tech since 1989, and I’ve probably worked with more Indians than any American alive. 90 percent of these Visas go to young Indians willing to do the job cheaper than the 50 year old white guy.
I noticed that the article doesn’t allow for comments.
In general when an article doesn’t allow for comments its because the publisher doesn’t want the propaganda undermined by the comments.
They just need to do it the way Japan does - you can hire all the foreign workers you want, but you are required to pay them 10% more than the prevailing wage for citizens.
[Only < 35 tech workers are hard to find. End blatant age discrimination and there are MORE than enough folks. ...and the older ones are more grateful and have gained wisdom (oh, and won’t be out defacing statues)]
That’s correct.
The Globalists destroyed a lot of America’s middle class.
BLATANT discrimination. Especially if you’re white and over 35.
Exactly. So many of these companies Will post a job for some computer science related field demanding a bachelors degree and probably some certifications and say will pay you $29,000 a year and then when the Americans actually take it will go to H1B visa to fill it and go see, no Americans want that job that’s why we had to use an H1B immigrant.
Plenty of Americans can do the job and know how to do the job with these companies are intent on hiring as much cheap for labor as possible, now they will have to suck it up and start paying reasonable wages. No one in engineering or science field with a bachelors degree should have to try to compete with someone willing to make $30,000 a year for a $50,000 a year job.
The problem is that the coding we did back in those days is considered obsolete and old-fashioned. And we also did something seemingly unheard-of now, testing our code!
Now, you need to be an expert on the 15 new scripting languages that have been released in the past 6 months to qualify for some of these positions. And that includes knowing all the current buzzwords used to describe them.
Of course, we can all be "greeters" at Walmart or Costco for $12/hour. Which is probably $5/hour more than the H-1B folks are being paid.
There are plenty of qualified tech workers who don’t care to move to the west coast!
I know plenty of > 50 tech workers that would take what the Indians are being paid. This goes beyond pay and costs. It’s outright discrimination; against whites, males, older and native born.
Boo hoo.
The coding is easy, the apostasy to the rainbow and BLM mafia is the impossible part!
His corporate globalist johns pay him well to not know it.
My nephew learned IT in the US Army and finished in a community college.
He cannot find a job in IT anywhere. 28 years old and cannot compete with H1-B visas.
Worked tech since the 80’s. Best time of my life. Enjoyed being on the cutting edge, made good money. Turned 50 and got sent packing. Managed to get a few contract jobs with periods of unemployment till I hit 58. No more responses to applications. Time to let the kids take over.
yeah very true, cobol, perl, CGI, lots of java, most of it used for managing the global networks I designed and building fun sites, I was a network engineer, Then I started managing the engineers instead of being one, then they offshored a bunch. Then they on shored them with H1B’s. I’m sure the offshore trend will get bigger again.
“In the 10 years prior to the pandemic, the number of computer-related workers soared by 62%, while the number in all other fields grew by just 13%. “
Ad I’ll be their wages were either stagnant or decreased because of cheap foreign labor in the US.
Big tech will be forced to hire American CIS and computer science grads and train them to the requirements of the job. But who will train them? I have an idea. How about the Indian H 1 B contractors who were trained by American tech employees specifically to replace them. Now the Indians can train Americans to replace them.Karma is a beatch.
Because all the ones here are too busy committing Arson, Looting and tearing down Statues of Historical Figures?
It's (deliberately?) ignorant nonsense; I've learned at least three languages since my first, and none of them were much of a challenge. The fundamentals of programming apply to all languages.
Lies! There are plenty of us, mostly older.
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