>>105786625 (OP)what, you mean like right now? because they had been doing that right up until the last 2 years when the money ran out and no one is investing in anything. investment in big tech is also winding down, hence why these companies are switching to hiring h1bs. note that these h1bs aren't actually meant to serve any kind of real practical purpose, like creating new products or whatever. rather they're there to keep the lights on and act as some kind of reassurance to the investment crowd that they're still a growing company.
there might also be some kind of managerial emotional thinking involved, like i think a lot of managers (even at the highest levels) are upset with the advent of widespread remote work, and are possibly traumatized by the covid era and its empowered workers that would job hop, work 7 jobs at once or generally just be shitheads because they could get away with. so now they want to get h1bs because they can force them to work on-site, pay them shit, overwork them, bully them, call them names etc. whatever they feel like because h1bs can't job hop or quit due to threat of deportation.
most of the costs involved with h1bs is ultimately paid by the taxpayer anyway. a single bargain bin h1b entering the country means there's a new person to supply with food, housing, medicine, clothes, etc. but productivity will likely remain the same or even go down because the h1b is just replacing an existing productivity creator (an american worker). it's actually incredibly counterproductive to try to import foreign workers in the middle of a recession, like it impoverishes EVERYONE in the country, and serves 0 purpose except to try to stomp down wages and create social unrest and desperation. it's also a way for companies to socialize the costs of their hiring, but in a truly retarded fashion it doesn't actually even accomplish much anything for that company except sate the egos of the managerial class and keep the line going up for another quarter.
