(03-05-2017 11:30 AM)Bull_Is_Back Wrote: (03-05-2017 11:23 AM)nzmorange Wrote: We're catering to the slowest mover. This is nouveau-communism.
No it's not....
When we needed someone to do a server audit at a previous company I recommenced going and finding a kid about to graduate from the UoM. What we needed was an entry level guy who could run a few linux commands and put stuff in a spread sheet for a report.
My company was a fortune 500 company so for the kid it would hae been a very nice first entry on the resume and we would have only had to pay him 30-50K a year.
But, because we were tied in with an H1B shop I was told we should just go through them. So instead of find a very available American who would have been 20 miles away we hired someone for slightly more because of a relationship with an H1B shop.
And the end effect is one more American that industry can point to and say "he does'nt have any experience, so we need more H1b's"
I don't know what you mean by "tied in w/ an H1B shop," but on a macro scale, your company will evolve to become more efficient, the H1B shop will become more efficient, or you'll be displaced by someone who is.
Additionally, the UoM will feel pressure to pump out better grads, and the UoM grad will feel pressure to become more marketable.
That's how capitalism works. Everyone is driven to better themselves.
Cutting out the H1B's would mean the UoM kid doesn't have an incentive to get better, the UoM doesn't have an incentive to get better, and your company (or companies like yours) doesn't/don't have the capacity to differentiate themselves on the free market by having efficient hiring practices (it may be s better idea to hire an H1B next time).
At the end of the day, the economy is less efficient so that "everyone (but the H1B guy) wins," just like in communism. And just like in communism, everyone will end up losing.
It's a terrible policy. If you feel like you're getting hurt by competitive pressures, welcome to capitalism. If you feel overwhelmed, you're either not in the right field, or you aren't good at what you do.* A government life raft sounds like a great idea on the surface, but it will end up hurting you more than it helps.
*I don't mean you personally. I mean the plural you, as in everyone reading this in general.