Are American high tech workers obsolete?

[Hewitt Tech]

I don't see any compelling reason for system admin jobs to stay here either.
Once a company's systems have been made remote capable, then practically any
admin function can be performed remotely. The irony in this is that American
management has resisted the idea of technical folks working remotely (from
home for instance) but now embrace outsourcing with enthusiasm.

-Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: <jkinz at rcn.com>
To: "Jerry Feldman" <gaf at blu.org>
Cc: <discuss at gnhlug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Are American high tech workers obsolete?


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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