So only foreigners can do the job?
Didn’t say that.
But Disney didn’t move to replace their IT dept to save bucks. The dept was in serious trouble and had been for awhile. Disney hired a contract company to bail out its IT dept and that company performed several projects on time under budget and most important, compared to their in house IT, finished products that actually work.
So. Disney greatly expanded its contract with the company and that company went looking for H1Bs.
Orlando is a very unique employment area. The amusement park industry there hires something in the neighborhood of 200,000 employees. Disney alone hires something like 95,000 employees in the Orlando area.
This is why Disney recruits other workers, like hospitality guests, from all over. There isn’t enough of a labor pool in Orlando for all the jobs needed.
I’m going to go hunt and find a very long discussion on this very issue: how the labor shortage for the kinds of jobs needed in the amusement park industry in Orlando affects potential future growth...
There’s more than one side to every story and the bottom line is Disney IT needed to be fired. The IT dept was costing Disney hundreds of millions of dollars in magic band system overruns and underperformance alone.