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To: LindyBill who wrote (18070)11/29/2003 10:33:00 AM
From: quehubo  Read Replies (1) of 793677
 
I dont work in the IT industry, but I have worked in and with multinational companies enough to know and I have read enough as well to conclude that you have bought the corporate line.

<<The Corporations are being forced to it more by available skills than money, IMO.

With our growth, we just aren't producing enough high skill people to satisfy the demand. >>

You say growth, I see an article talking about unemployed workers who lost their jobs because in IT and other back office jobs that can be completed for 1/10 of the cost in India or Philippines. Both countries with educated people who speak English.

I am not just talking about highly skilled jobs either, I am talking about accounting, finance, customer service, etc.

It is about money, the corporations will survive in foreign countries. I dont know about a large part of the middle class if this continues unchecked.

I know personally of companies using the technical visas to import cheap labor to do work a legal person in the US can do. These technical visas are exploited by many companies to bring cheap labor to the USA. I suspect people in the IT industry know first hand of similar experiences.
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