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 ...
Exactly.
How will US-based tech support scam operations be able to survive without a steady supply of Indian recruits?
Globalist whores is right...
Most companies would rather just let a job position sit empty rather than employ older white male native born Americans.
Their’s a ton of them, especially over 50.
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they got rid of american tech workers
they don’t want to pay american tech workers
Fire Americans to hire scabs. see Disney..
400,000 h-1b visas just in 2019? That’s just awful.
Too damn bad! These billion/million dollar companies can start IT programs for the idiots with degrees in Feminist Racial History studies of the Sudan.
Corporate executive whores are traitors.
The Americans don't want to live 10 programmers to a house in Silicon Valley.
agreed - the opinion piece is complete nonsense. tech workers are easy to find particularly now as many are being laid off in droves. simply cancel H1B and return these guys (mostly to India, but a few Russians etc.) the tech companies will then be forced to hire older workers who cost more (too bad) as well as provide funding for training to colleges.
H1B and the rest of H1 categories are a huge scam - just enriches tech shareholders at expense of US workers.
As so I have discovered.
There is a website where COBOL programmers can pursued by companies who need COBOL resources.....to work for free.
An economics professor? Does he know about supply and demand? Less workers will drive wages up. Higher wages will attract more students to the field.
It’s the largest major in our Business school. Our CS and Computer Engineering majors have 100% job placement rates
correct
what they have done is put so many requirements onto a position that (that they know they really dont need all of them) - ie they pad the so-called requirements
so that startng out folks won’t apply or be able to be rejected
and the long timers who do have possibly most/all the requirements look at the salary being offered and see they are lowballing, for what they are demanding, so they dont apply
then they get the green light to bring in foreigners who also do not have all the requirements, because they were all never needed in the first place
the most productive demo gets the shaft
tons, yes indeed. and many of the big firms have tended to fire anyone over about 35 age, too. you sure are an exception if you can hang onto your tech job at 40
[hire all the out of work American programmers and engineers first]
Exactly
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