• yes_this_time@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Sure there would be value, but now with an additional 100k hurddle,.expanding overseas office may be a better value

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      2 hours ago

      But that doesn’t make sense. The gap between a US based HB1 and someone in China or India was already well north of 100k - so why were there jobs in the US at all to begin with?

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        Decisions and jobs aren’t monolith.

        In some cases employers are going to hire US based no matter what. In other cases there would be a choice and this policy may tip the scale in some of those cases.

        In aggregate, it seems really likely to me that this will result in some outflow of jobs from the US to international