...Please realize that Offshoring and lower labor costs remain central to IBM's workforce strategy...
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If outsourcing is banned you wont have a job or company will post losses as it was for decades with no pay raises or bonuses. Power returned to profit due to ‘cheap Indians’. Learn to work even 50% as hard as them and no jobs will be lost. Its not always about cost but mentality.
AI coding tools will be cheaper than offshore cost so next phase would be reducing offshore
There's a broader trend at IBM Consulting being missed. 10 years ago, IBM Consulting was doing actual consulting work and large scale system integration work. In other words, project work. No more. Now it's all just (offshore) outsourcing work - take over support/maintenance for this application or that business process and the most of the onshore work being done is pure staff aug work, just sign a rate card for devs or testers that will work at client's direction, pure bodyshop.
It’s already hastening
Its to late, banning offshoring just means no more jobs moved abroad. It does not prevent job losses in the US, just have AI replace the roles instead of cheap Indians.
This is the point people dont get. Stopping H1B's and Offshoring now is like locking the gate after the house has already been robbed. Its far too late. Its not going to bring back jobs, it just means those lost jobs are not longer done by Humans
H1B ban us step one, the ban on offshoring is coming up too… open your eyes.