many small or medium-sized companies “will tell you they actually can’t find workers to do the job”.
Hahahahahahahaaa… BULLSHIT.
There are PLENTY of workers out there, there just aren’t many willing to work for sub-poverty wages.
If your business relies on H1B workers in order to exist, then you either have an abysmally shitty business plan, or you’re pulling too much out of the company for your own benefit.
Exactly. H1B’s are the band-aid companies use to pay $60K/year for $125K/year jobs, not because “they can’t find talent”, but because they “can’t find talent willing to do the job for that little”. It’s another form of “socialism for the rich”.
Yep, 100% this. I was in IT during the dot-com bubble burst, and unfortunately, things like H-1B caps are not lowered to accommodate the realities of the job market - or at least not nearly soon enough. And bastard companies were claiming they still needed H-1Bs in the huge downturn where hundreds would apply for the most shitty of low-level web coding jobs. No, they needed that to boost their quarterly earnings and funnel more money to mahogany row instead of paying market rates for the work.
I would think right about now that we need about ZERO H-1Bs in America’s IT market given the way things are. If there really is some crazy niche thing that requires some truly rare talent, okay, sure. But bringing tens of thousands in only to do the same kinds of things people here can do and many of them are jobless? No, fuck that.
How do you feel about people who, as foreign students, have just completed a 4-year degree at an American university and need an H-1B to get a job in and remain in the USA?
What I’m proposing is that people have an easy path to stay and work here, ideally permanently (but of course up to the individual), without the H-1B program being used.
I’m not the person up above, but I think your question might not be meaningful. The fact that some people are willing to work under a visa that is being abused by hundreds or thousands of employers doesn’t mean that those people are bad, or that they don’t deserve to have a job somewhere, but it does mean that the visa program should be fixed.
We also see in many countries, and I think in the United States, that when you have narrowly tailored work visas implemented in careless ways, it gives the employer leverage to abuse their employee, especially in the period leading up to visa renewal, but just in general. If we want to minimize human rights violations and labor exploitation, we should give people general residence visas that are not tied to jobs, or at least not tied to any specific job or field.
I am financially biased in this matter, so my perspective is suspect.
This is literally the only policy I’ve ever agreed with Trump on during either of his terms. I suspect there’s an angle I haven’t considered because why would Trump ever do anything that wasn’t horrible?
I just left my position as a contractor with a major car company due to RTO. I was one of two non-Indians on my team and I know most if not all of them were on visas. This is going to be a big disruption. I’ll bet that RTO policy goes into the toilet.
Hahahahahahahaaa… BULLSHIT.
There are PLENTY of workers out there, there just aren’t many willing to work for sub-poverty wages.
If your business relies on H1B workers in order to exist, then you either have an abysmally shitty business plan, or you’re pulling too much out of the company for your own benefit.
Exactly. H1B’s are the band-aid companies use to pay $60K/year for $125K/year jobs, not because “they can’t find talent”, but because they “can’t find talent willing to do the job for that little”. It’s another form of “socialism for the rich”.
Yep, 100% this. I was in IT during the dot-com bubble burst, and unfortunately, things like H-1B caps are not lowered to accommodate the realities of the job market - or at least not nearly soon enough. And bastard companies were claiming they still needed H-1Bs in the huge downturn where hundreds would apply for the most shitty of low-level web coding jobs. No, they needed that to boost their quarterly earnings and funnel more money to mahogany row instead of paying market rates for the work.
I would think right about now that we need about ZERO H-1Bs in America’s IT market given the way things are. If there really is some crazy niche thing that requires some truly rare talent, okay, sure. But bringing tens of thousands in only to do the same kinds of things people here can do and many of them are jobless? No, fuck that.
How do you feel about people who, as foreign students, have just completed a 4-year degree at an American university and need an H-1B to get a job in and remain in the USA?
What I’m proposing is that people have an easy path to stay and work here, ideally permanently (but of course up to the individual), without the H-1B program being used.
I’m not the person up above, but I think your question might not be meaningful. The fact that some people are willing to work under a visa that is being abused by hundreds or thousands of employers doesn’t mean that those people are bad, or that they don’t deserve to have a job somewhere, but it does mean that the visa program should be fixed.
We also see in many countries, and I think in the United States, that when you have narrowly tailored work visas implemented in careless ways, it gives the employer leverage to abuse their employee, especially in the period leading up to visa renewal, but just in general. If we want to minimize human rights violations and labor exploitation, we should give people general residence visas that are not tied to jobs, or at least not tied to any specific job or field.
You will likely need to work for a company that can have you remote or in another office that’s outside the US…
I mostly agree except for two things:
I just left my position as a contractor with a major car company due to RTO. I was one of two non-Indians on my team and I know most if not all of them were on visas. This is going to be a big disruption. I’ll bet that RTO policy goes into the toilet.
RTO = return to office?
Yes