fill a 100k job with an h1-b worker and only pay them 50k, it's still back to profit after 2 years
That one is actually illegal. The minimum on a H-1B salary is $60,000. But there is an additional requirement that the salary has to be at or higher than the prevailing wage for the job in question.
Government: So I see that your H-1B jobs are all for "Computer Programmer (I)" and your U.S. hires are all for "Software Engineer (III)" or "(IV)".
Company: Yes. We haven't had much luck in hiring level one programmers here in the U.S. We put the jobs out there, but nobody is applying.
Prevailing wage for the job doesn't mean what you think it does. A bunch of sleazy outsourcing firms made sure of that.
I wasn't aware that Calc didn't do live pivot tables. Heck, even I've done that in various jobs. I'm working a project right now that requires we pick up a huge spreadsheet, pivot and burst.
Mod parent sort of funny, though it didn't really clarify why gambling on the game you are controlling is so problematic.
Ten tiny companies, ten meters.
So instead of paying higher prices for power they'll spend tons of money maintaining an incredibly inefficient system?
Surprisingly little money. As soon as the extra cost exceeds the cost of hiring one person to maintain workarounds, it is cheaper to do the workarounds. Tricks like that might ostensibly work for individuals, but they fail badly every time when you're talking about big corporations.
"The eleventh commandment was `Thou Shalt Compute' or `Thou Shalt Not Compute' -- I forget which." -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982