#costarica

https://ticotimes.net/2026/05/17/amazon-carries-out-new-round-of-layoffs-in-costa-rica

Heard people will start getting notified from May 18th in the US. Also heard the entire IT in Costa Rica will be shut down? Does anyone has any other info.

I'm in part of CMS and I hear we are dropping all of our red badges in CR to others in some part of Asia.. Assuming it's India.. They'll be gone by the end of the month.

What is it looking like in these geos:
US
Taiwan
Israel
Costa Rica

Due to restructuring in Ortho, aka giving all the jobs over seas to Costa Rica, all the TX design team, clinical advisors, DC and FMQC, US based employees, are being laid off effective in March. Hard to say official numbers but it's upwards of 40 people. Many were here since clarity alligners started nearly 10 years ago. Pretty sc-mmy way to save a few bucks the day after they announced 1 Billion dollars for stock buy back.

Costa Rica is visiting brian head brian head has no snow and other musings

Any news? Microsoft DIS is moving operations to Costa Rica. What about other campaign's?

Acccenture Microsoft DIS ( formally known as N3) is moving ALL their operations to COSTA RICA. They are laying off lots of people. If you are affected because your position moved to Costa Rica you need to report to the government .

Intel says it will retreat from planned projects in Germany and Poland, end its assembly and test operations in Costa Rica, and finish 2025 with just around 75,000 “core employees” in total.

Intel employed 109,800 people at the end of 2024, of which 99,500 were “core employees,” so the company is pushing out around 24,000 people this year — shrinking Intel by roughly one-quarter.

https://www.theverge.com/news/713388/intel-q2-2025-leave-germany-poland-costa-rica

We've all seen the headlines where there's thousands of US headcount being laid off, and some teams in Israel being impacted. But I haven't heard much if there are big HC cuts in China, India, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Costa Rica, or other lower cost countries/GEOs? Anyone know if the HC cuts are also taking place elsewhere? Or is this the old sleight of hand trick where they fire 5K US employees... but hire back 3K in Asia/Low Cost GEOs?

Amazon offshoring and use of the corrupt H-1B/OPT visa program destroys U.S. jobs. Amazon is not alone in this scam. They are, however, one of the top abusers. And, as Amazon opens new locations across the U.S., taxpayers foot the bill in the form of TIFs (Tax Increment Financing agreements) and other subsidies.

Example data (H-1B jobs 2025): https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=amazon+&year=2025

https://x.com/thejobchick/status/1942652414739505333

Amanda Goodall
@thejobchick
The chart (available in X posting) shows six roles at Amazon, all previously based in mid-to-high cost U.S. metros like Seattle, NYC, Phoenix, and Nashville.

Every one of them paid $145K–$165K in total comp. Today? These same functions are being filled in India, Costa Rica, and the Philippines… for as little as $28K to $40K.

The result? Cost savings of 71% to 78%. Per employee.

These aren’t theoretical roles. They’re pulled from:

Archived U.S. Amazon job listings

Live offshore postings on http://amazon.jobs

Verified salary data from http://Levels.fyi, Glassdoor, H1B/LCA filings

And internal comp benchmarks from Accenture and Cognizant vendor contracts

And here’s the twist: Many of these offshore hires are contractors, not full-time Amazon employees.

While digging into H-1B isn’t my thing, this should explain a bit more to those wondering why it is so hard to find a job. This isn’t new. But this is perhaps a snapshot explanation.

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Follow the H-1B discussions on X. Read www.wnd.com/?s=Amanda+Bartolotta

https://www.wnd.com/2025/06/americas-hidden-subsidy-to-india/

View data here:
https://guestworkervisas.com
https://www.myvisajobs.com/emp/search.aspx

I don’t know how many of you sell any client systems with ProSupport but nearly all of US support has been moved to Panama and Costa Rica. The only reason there’s any US agents left is because of Federal contracts but I’m sure they’ll find a way around that. Feels like deceptive marketing but they changed it to say ‘In region’ now.

I’ve also had some sales agents contact me about exchanges. You can’t get a system exchange if you receive a dead unit within the first 30 days. They have to go to care (good luck) or get a service call before even being considered. The goal is no exchanges at all even when warranted. They did a ‘cost of dsat’ analysis and determined it wasn’t worth a good survey to spend the money on it.

I feel powerless at trying to ‘save the sale’ from tech support sometimes because of our stupid processes.

Just random tech support venting. AMA

Customers again not happy with TransUnion passing all the jobs to India, costa rica among other countries. Can't be happy with the UK, they don't work overtime and you can't get hold of them during pub hours. Let's outsource 100% of IT to another countries but have DEI personnel who works in Texas lead GCC. How does one lead from US who not on the same time schedule, sounds like that person has a husband saving her a-s. Here reports of nothing getting done, do these board members even give a sh-t?

Here you go:

• Currrent issues in Omnissa - @OP+1vWJc2s8
• Perpetual Omnissa Thread - @OP+1vV0hGhK
• More Omnissa Employees Want New Leadership - @OP+1vVq0Cn6
• Omnissas latest brain waves - @OP+1vSbxoJ1
• Telling the truth in Omnissa - @OP+1vSoyCGx
• More Omnissa clown world - @OP+1vOLVDVU
• Pasting over the cracks! - @OP+1vOGuLRe
• Party time in Omnissa for all senior management - @OP+1vOwrcLp
• Omnissa just sc--wed Costa Rica - @OP+1vCJjD3F

So Cargill let go of employees at the beginning of December (same as every other cargill employee affected by the layoffs) and we still haven't seen a single dollar to our name? Thank you for letting us spend the holidays without any money and stressing. Really putting people first huh? The teams are more worried about their christmas events than making the process smoother. Please don't think about working for Cargill Costa Rica, they are all talk and don't live up to their values.

Omnissa reneged on the quarterly bonus owed to the staff in Costa Rica and are making them sign day1 contracts. Omnissa have lost up to half their customer base already. They are deploying full racist equity in the company, finding ways to cut peoples salaries while giving their managers promotions and pay rises. A third of the staff are now gone and they now have people in positions who cant do the job. The place is a complete car crash and the management are targeting people who are raising concerns.

The masterclass in corporate “leadership” continues. With layoffs and “voluntary” severances handled as covertly as a teenager sneaking out after curfew, it’s clear that transparency isn’t just optional—it’s utterly avoided. Our fearless CEO and their trusty DEI henchmen seem to be taking notes from United Healthcare’s “offshore everything” playbook, aiming for that golden 70-80% offshore mark. Nothing says “commitment to excellence” like replacing skilled workers with a race to the bottom for cheap labor.

And about the talent being recruited in Costa Rica and India—both conveniently owned by Kaiser. It’s like they saw the Titanic and thought, “What if we skip the iceberg entirely and just build the lifeboats as submarines?” The Oceangate metaphor feels almost generous.

Meanwhile, you can bet the execs’ paychecks remain untouched. Oh no, the sacred seven-figure bonuses and their job security must remain protected at all costs. Who cares if they have to toss the rank-and-file overboard like ballast in a sinking ship? After all, nothing screams “leadership” like setting your company on fire, blaming the wind, and then asking for a raise.

Do contractors in Costa Rica (converted VMware full time employees) need to renew their contract every quarter?

“ Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. laid off 41 Akron-based employees last week, part of a continued restructuring that will cut more than 3,000 jobs across the company in the coming years.

The announcement comes on top of an earlier notice that Goodyear, which is based in Akron, plans in early 2025 to move 175 local jobs to Costa Rica and lay off employees here.”

https://signalakron.org/goodyear-cuts-41-akron-jobs-in-latest-round-of-layoffs/

Goodyear said it plans to move "175 roles supporting our Americas business and corporate functions to a new Goodyear location in Costa Rica."

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/business/2024/07/19/goodyear-confirms-akron-layoffs-relocates-175-positions-to-costa-rica/74470630007/

Yesterday almost 200 people globally in Cargill Global IT (Now called DT&D Digital Technology & Data) were laid off. This included early career / first/second year employees as well. The goal is to replace them with DEI workers out of Atlanta or India/Costa Rica and by lowering the standards on job postings in order to obtain them.

They are more than 2 years into Jennifer Hartsock's tenure as CIO / CIDO and almost every conceivable metric has gotten significantly worse, as a once great place to work has done a complete 180. My guess is her and her leadership team may not be around for much longer.

They've been in training for over 6 months on just DMI's and they still don't get it. Senior manager and one of the supervisors headed to CR yesterday to further train. What a huge mistake to outsource to Costa Rica .

Same remote job that was once held by US worker is eliminated and now seen advertised as a remote opportunity in Costa Rica.

Discriminatory.

TU you reek.

Does anyone know if product managers were laid off in earlier rounds? Also noticed they are hiring for product roles in Costa Rica. Would that be a hint of product being targeted in next layoff round?

Is it true that TK and Anurag closed down the Costa Rica office? If so, I'm so sorry to the amazing people in CR affected. You will find better opportunities.

Many full-time employees were laid off who worked in IT and other areas. Reddit comments state the the call center was decimated with replacements starting the next day. Corporate jobs ranging from SVP, Directors and down were eliminated. Corporate culture has changed for the worse since the arrival of GF. He is moving American full-time jobs to Costa RIca this summer just like he did at ExpressScripts. Plenty of contractors still there so there is no real value placed on employees. More lay-offs will likely come after their summer start-up in Costa Rica.

They are angling to try to move more and more positions to India and other places. Trying to save money is going to bite them in the butt. They don't seem to learn from trying to move ECS web development to Costa Rica.

Intel announced

Expanding Arizona fab
Expanding New Mexico
Expand Oregon
Building packaging facilities in Poland
Building Ohio fab
Build Israel fab
Building Germany fab
Expanding Costa Rica

Spending 100 billion on all these

Meanwhile have a negative revenue. Rumors are floating cutting back benefits and salaries.

Intel cannot pay employees salary how is going to pay for all of these.

Almost 50 billion in debt

Products are not competitive at all in GPU or AI space.

Come on Leaders let’s be realistic

The Costa Rican government agency Procomer confirmed that VMware's Costa Rica operations are closing.
The closure is due to a corporate decision following VMware's acquisition by Broadcom.
Procomer has been in contact with VMware and is offering assistance with the transition.
Attempts to contact VMware's local headquarters and corporate public relations office were unsuccessful.

https://www.crhoy.com/tecnologia/procomer-cierre-de-operaciones-de-vmware-en-el-pais-obedece-a-decision-corporativa/

https://ncrnoticias.com/economia-negocios/gigante-tecnologico-vmware-cerraria-sus-operaciones-en-costa-rica/

Does anyone know why the Costa Rica employees have not received a letter? Is the site getting closed?

Legal office has been asked to timestamp the letters, sorry fellow colleagues, number is in the hundreds :(

I guess we just didn’t read between the lines in this January 2023 article about all the jobs headed down to Heredia CR. HR, Product, Analytics, Neustar, etc. I think Experian and Equifax are also in Heredia. Sounds like quite a CRA bash down there after these bureaus are done with us.

https://www.cinde.org/en/essential-news/transunion-establishes-costa-rica-global-capability-center-creating-100s-of-jobs-across-technology-disciplines

The Costa Rica site is getting axed.

CFO just announced that we are going to cut US finance jobs (both voluntary and CPM) to increase HC in lower cost center like Costa Rica. And apparently only targeting to US finance employees. How is that ok especially when the company took government fund (source from our paycheck) to increase OVERSEAS jobs?

I was wondering if anyone could share a summary of what is happening internally there. I've read through some of the posts and they've helped explain some things, for example we had reached out to the Costa Rica office in the past were making progress, but then everything stopped, with no explanation. And I read in a post here that the office was sold last year?

I'm reading about numerous offices closing, and everyone being asked to work at designated offices by a certain deadline (March 31, 2024)? Is that true? Which obviously is leading to a good number of employees leaving. Does anyone have an overview of which DNA teams are gone/still left? We try to be as understanding as possible but the lack of response for months is very troubling on our end. If anyone is willing to provide a high level summary, I would be grateful.

https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-invest-12-bln-costa-rica-over-next-two-years-2023-08-30/

All Tier 2 HR employees with the exception of Benefits are being let go and the work is moving to Costa Rica...go figure just look at the exchange rate. Rumor has it Tier 3 will be next. What a joke. Marvin will ruin this company just like he did with JC Penny.

https://ticourbano.com/2023/07/18/sysco-expande-su-centro-de-soporte-global-en-costa-rica-con-una-inversion-de-5-millones/

https://ticourbano.com/2023/07/18/sysco-expande-su-centro-de-soporte-global-en-costa-rica-con-una-inversion-de-5-millones/

I have been thinking about writing this post for a while but hoped that by now some things would have changed for the better, but they have not. I have been in the industry for years, my entire career actually which spans over 2 decades. I have worked for small start ups and been with MDT for half of my career now. When I came to MDT we were still at the top in regards to quality and product innovation. Unfortunately around that same time Omar Ishrak came on the scene and it has been nothing but downhill ever since. Omar brought with him the ideas generated by GE and his mentor, Jack Welch. Omar also put all his chips on Hillary winning and Corp taxes stating high in the US, he was dead wrong on both. If you want to look at the future of MDT just look at the last 2 decades of GE.

Omar took all of the profits and plowed them into earnings not into R and D, Medtronic is now faced with the hangover of this gluttonous endeavor. MDT and Geoff Martha have decided that it’s time to be a growth company again. Again, our leaders are wrong…we are far from a growth company and in some divisions we are actually looking at a decade of decline both in surgical reimbursements and in surgical volumes.

MDT has reduced clinical support, outsourced customer service to such places as India and Costa Rica, manufacturing to 3rd world countries, and payroll to a 3rd party. We have more FDA federal corrective actions than the next largest 3 med device companies combined, take a look at the 2 articles that the Minneapolis Star Tribune did towards the end of 2022. The Dominican experiment has officially failed Geoff, you know it, the board knows it, and according to our stock price the street knows it.

If you are thinking that MDT is anything like it was even 6-7 years ago, it is not. If you are a young person who is thinking about getting into Med Device, I would not. This industry in general is falling apart due to horrific leadership among the big 4 and a broken health care system that will ultimately end in Medicare for all.

Geoff Martha is a truly horrible leader. I guess it’s not his fault, it’s seems like he has been told his whole life how good he is at hockey and how handsome he looks in his Christmas sport jackets. Unfortunately we need real men and women of industry to correct the decisions made by a few that have affected the many.

The benefits for those coming in today are no better than what a manager at a local Kroger gets and in some cases worse. Our car reimbursement is laughable, $450/mo plus a pittance per mile is so bad that even Motus will tell you we are in the bottom quartile for what they pay out to other companies field personnel. If you don’t believe me please call Motus yourself, I did and I was shocked when the person laughed when he looked at what we get reimbursed.

Pensions, yeah those ended a while back for any new employees. Last year our 401k match was .66 on the dollar, like I said Kroger managers get more. Healthcare, well, not great either. We have been driven to mediocrity.

Obviously I am looking to leave MDT as soon as possible and hope that all of the talented folks I work with can do the same. We are in very dark times here, and the light that we are seeing is not the light at the end of the tunnel but the light from a train getting ready to run us over.

Oh and Intersect is truly horrible. Thanks Brett Wall you egotistical fu-k for flushing over a billion down for this trash.

Exhibit A: The ramp-up of operations in Costa Rica.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-companies-are-nearshoring-cheaper-workers-from-latin-america-layoffs-2023-5

By: Britney Nguyen
May 11, 2023, 2:27 PM CDT

As US companies continue laying off workers amid a downturn in the economy, some are also hiring employees — but they're looking not far from home.

It's called "nearshoring," and in this case it's companies zeroing in on workers from Latin America who can work in a time zone close to the US — and for less money than US-based staff.

Deel, a global human resources company, told Bloomberg that it estimated 3,000 US companies have used its platform to hire workers in Latin America in the first quarter of this year.

"If for the price of 10 engineers in the US, we can hire 100 engineers in Brazil, there's definitely something to think about there," Alex Bouaziz, CEO of Deel, told Bloomberg.

Companies that work with Deel pay an average annual salary to full-time contracted staff of $74,000 in Latin America in areas like engineering and product design, Bloomberg reported. US software developers earn a median salary of $127,000, Bloomberg said, citing Bureau of Labor Statistics data.

Deel said in the first quarter of this year, it's seen a 50% increase in US companies hiring workers from Latin America when compared to the same quarter last year. Most of the workers come from engineering hubs in Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, according to Deel.

Deel's 2022 State of Global Hiring Report shows that Latin American countries were at the top of the list from where global companies were hiring. The firm's report uses data from its own 260,000 worker contracts across 160 countries and also draws from other external global data points.