Now Halliburton will lose many more engineers, especially all those contractors from LnT etc. Suddenly those cheap contractors are not so cheap hay!
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/
https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-trump-immigration-8d39699d0b2de3d90936f8076357254e
The main problems will come after Trump
@ty Halliburton maintains offices and operations across six major global regions: North America, Latin America, Europe & Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East, Asia Pacific, and the Caspian Sea. We already have well-established systems in place to manage exactly those challenges. If companies can cut costs and still maintain productivity abroad, they will and many already are.
@qv there are a lot of challenges with offshoring. Productivity, oversight and foreign policies to name a few.
Reverse incentive. Companies will just offshore the positions so they won't even be US based. So not only will it not be an American in the position, the tax base, consumer spending, and investment will all be somewhere other than the US. Once those positions become established elsewhere, they'll never come back. It's a negative feedback loop combined with all the other things happening and the US will literally never be able to fully recover.
The only way H1B stops is if Corporation want to stop hiring foreigners. Plain and simple. You have world class universities here in America yet corporations can't find the specialized skills needed for corporations. I call BS. It boils down to simple economics higher cheap labor to improve corporate bottom lines. Do you think this is not happening today in Halliburton then you are dreaming. Right now with all the layoffs some of the day to day work have already been outsourced to India.
This policy is a nothing burger.
It’s a one-time fee for new applicants only and it expires in 2026 (unless it gets extended/survives any court proceedings).
No real impact, no lasting policy.
It’s a dog whistle, plain and simple...just another attempt to rile up the base.
@hf
the reality is that the price point for h1bs are so attractive it makes you uncompetitive. level the playing field with money and i guarantee you will find you unicorn candidates, but i digress. the ieee has several MILLION underemployed engineers in the US, you're just not doing your job.
@he it’s impossible to make you understand the reality. You would continue to come up with these new statements without any real knowledge of the facts.
@h3
you people just want h1b slaves, whatever.
@h1 absolutely incorrect. The only criteria I had was to find candidates who were capable of doing their jobs efficiently.
@gz That's because you are hiring based upon DEI criteria.
the rule is for new hire , my understanding.
Good!!
Also, H1B base salary has been increased from $60k to $150K. So, each H1B will cost the company a minimum of $250K per year (includes annual R100K fee). That's like director wages! Bye-bye H1B employees. Good luck.
That's the point.
I'm a H1B holder. Adding $100K to my cost of employment will make me unemployable.