Why are entry-level jobs being sent offshore?
Firms are increasingly shifting entry-level work and training new staff to offshore workers to slash labor and benefits costs. This leaves local college graduates and entry-level professionals with dwindling job prospects and fewer opportunities to start their careers.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1questioning the legality of outsourcing domestic entry-level labor
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“New staff are being trained on how to offshore the work before they even learn how to do the work themselves.”source ↗
“At my firm, the staff population is slowly declining as management continues to increase investment in offshore, it is majorly fucked.”source ↗
“i get that $5/hr in Venezuela may be a decent wage. But yeah, a California company will only spend pennies on a job that a student out of college could have had as an entry level job.”source ↗
“Multiple companies outsource labor due to this. And imagine the money saved on not having to pay US benefits 🤷♀️”source ↗
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