On 7/2/2015 11:49 AM, Dana Mitchell wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:16:44 +0800, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote:
The absolute, sure fire way to determine whether there's a specific
"shortage" is to look at the price of the product or service in alleged
short supply relative to general inflation.
To net it out, we don't see evidence in these data that there's an IT labor
shortage in the United States. Or, if there is a "shortage," it isn't
getting materially worse.
Which makes IBM's response to Senator Charles Grassley even more preposterous:
"The high skilled visa programs provide a limited but necessary means for IBM to
meet the near to medium term needs of its U.S clients and our own business. The
technology industry's shift to new, higher value growth areas such as cloud, analytics,
mobile, security and social technologies is placing a greater premium on a new set of
skills. These changes are exacerbating the skills shortage that we discussed with you
during your 2013 visit to IBM's Dubuque center."
"We bring goreign workers to the U.S. because those workers have specific profiles
and expertise that we cannot source locally in a timely way to fulfill client contract
requirements."
Dana
This is, to be polite, horse hockey. The foreign workers can be paid
less, and they learn on the job. They don't have the skills when they
get off the boat. If there was a shortage, bill rates and salaries
would be going up, but they're relatively flat and have been for years now.
Regards,
Tom Conley
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