[sinkspur]

H1-Bs are on the way out.

The next wave is companies simply outsourcing projects, and then entire departments, offshore. India, Malaysia, the Phillipines, South Africa are all prime sources of IT talent.

I'm selling these resources, and they're ready to go.

And companies are talking to us, seriously.

[Torie]

Are we headed back to a subsistence economy here in the US sink? Should I buy a farm? Who will be able to afford lawyers when all our jobs go overseas except those derived from mother earth?

[koba]

I went to Hyderabad, India, and saw the high-tech center there. Bill Gates is donating $20 million more to improve it. Microsoft, Oracle, and many other big companies are already there. A large amount of medical transcription is done there, and it has become a major industry in Hyderabad. The information is sent to India, processed there, and sent back to America. The companies are making serious efforts to send more and more work there, just as the manufacturing industry here made serious efforts to leave the U.S. and go someplace else, like Mexico.

[RogueIsland]

The next wave is companies simply outsourcing projects, and then entire departments, offshore. India, Malaysia, the Phillipines, South Africa are all prime sources of IT talent.

It's always fun when companies do this. Every company I've ever worked for (as either a perm or a contractor) who did this ended up with such a botched mess on their hands that they ended up paying triple to get U.S. contractors in to fix the disaster.