Everywhere I look the downturn is because of “outsourcing”, “India taking our jobs!!”, “cheap overseas labor” and never, never ever porky’s fault. It’s the dirty immigrant labor, not the guys who talk about having “properties”. I’ve always seen this shit floating around in white collar jobs as long as I’ve been working but it’s been really amped up the last few weeks. I am not surprised that people are just this racist on their own but at least some of it feels very manufactured.
This is anecdotal but I imagine it’s indicative of a larger trend, but I have friends who work for WFH-only tech firms that are doing exactly this, they’ve realised that they can pay Latin American software folks like a third of US salaries and who perform the same job just as well. The time zone is the same, and many are fluent in English. Only possible because they’re a WFH-only company though.
Yup, IBM contracts a lot of people from Costa Rica and good for them, but they are still overworked quite a bit. And their white manager berates them in front of their clients.