Are American high tech workers obsolete?

[jkinz at rcn.com]

On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:17:02AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> When the economy was in good shape, H1-B was used to fill in for positions 
> that were not being filled. Very similar to the need to migrant workers in 
> the Southwest. When the economy went sour, companies found that the foreign 
> workers (mostly from India) were cheaper. 
> Much of the displacement has been in system administration. 

Hi Jerry, Did you mean that H1-B persons were displacing Sysadmins or 
that Sysadmin positions were being moved offshore ?

I'm asking because what I have seen is that Sysadmin postions are staying
here in the States (in reduced numbers of course), and software development,
software maintenance, customer support functions are being moved offshore.


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