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Laid-Off It Workers Worry .s. Is Losing Tech Jobs to Outsourcing
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Sixty-three-year-old Bob Zhang is worried about the future of tech jobs in the United States. Will the high-paying positions be a thing of the past?
Zhang thinks it's already starting to happen. He's one of 79 IT workers from the University of California, San Francisco, who've been laid off. To replace them, the school is outsourcing some of their work to HCL, an Indian firm.
"Usually, they outsource the low-paying jobs," Zhang said. "But now they use H-1B [visas] and use foreign workers to replace the high-paying jobs. This trend is dangerous."
It was a sentiment shared among the laid-off IT workers. They fear other publicly-funded universities will take the same approach, and replace U.S. employees with foreign workers.
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