While corp America may be still leveraging HB1 workers, that may come to an end soon. Congress will be penalizing companies enough to where it’d be cheaper to hire US citizens than HB1. I know that this has been said before but there are new initiatives now from both sides of the house and they are both in agreement.
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Offshoring does suck you get what you pay for. Why not open an office in the boonies in america and pay about the same as the offshore folks get. Like open an office west Virginia where 30k or 35k a year is good pay
One problem with offshoring is the rights of the customer with their data.
If a Citi worker in the US steals your PII or account number, your identity etc…you have a recourse if they are caught. You can take them to court and press charges.
If a Citi worker who resides in India does the same, the worse that happens to them if they are caught, is that they get fired from Citi (if that) and a week later they go to work for some other company. Serious legal recourse, meh, not so much.
I’ve already heard murmurings of moving away from offshoring not only from Citi but from friends of mine who work at other banks.
Citigroup hires vendors in droves. At the Irving office it feels like you are in an Indian company. Many ppl i come across are really substandard IT developers who got in because they somehow got an H1 visa. The work culture is dominated atleast in tech. organizations with Indians from vendors like TCS and L&T. My whole hierarchy apart from CEO Fraser is Indian. The mode of communication in office in often times in some regional language of India they speak,which is unprofessional as you are excluded from the communication. There are some clowns who have been made SVP but lack professionalism, courtesy and frankly common sense. They should stop hiring H1’s and focus rebuilding the culture.
Its H1B ..not HB1.
It would be nice if this actually happened but I have NO faith that our congress will do anything for American workers when it might jeopardize their campaign coffers. I think offshoring is the bigger threat. We've already seen the damage done by moving manufacturing overseas with the supply chain meltdown during the pandemic. Now US corporations are granting foreign countries unfettered access to all kinds of data including personal banking and medical information. Again, I have serious doubts that congress is going to help us.
While im glad to hear that. I hope that doesnt affect current HB1 employee. These people work their a-s for US companies and do not get the same benefits the US offer. Imagine putting in 10 years just to get rid of you like that bevause of some shady government politics. New HB1 is fair game. We just do need any more
There’s also a congressional movement to prohibit any US company from allowing any NON-us citizen employee from having access to a US citizen information such as PII, account numbers and such. So any company such as banks, credit cards etc… would have to take measures to rectify that. So when you call into American Express or whoever, getting a hold of someone in India to get support followed by “may I have your account number please”, those days would be over.