From a fundamental standpoint, I 100% agree with this level of fee on H1B visas. It was intended for bringing in people who had specializations that didn't exist locally, not for bringing in people who would simply do the work cheaper then the local labor pool. This has led to all kinds of stagnation in compensation especially when there was high demand for the jobs as well as rising cost of living.

That being said, remote work has shown that some of this can be done without being at the office anymore. I think some businesses will look at this again and review their recent back to the office policies, and the need to have workers live/reside near certain tech hubs/centers, and will use it as an excuse to then pay the going rate of where the person resides, not the rate of compensation for the work itself....

1. Austria is the other side of Eurasia from Australia
2. Y'all are just fine with no privacy at all, and (if you're American), Russian hackers playing with your personal and financial data, right?

And the difference between timesharing on someone else's mainframe, and storing data in "the cloud" is?

If you were dumb enough to buy one of these "smart" refrigerators, you get what you deserve. There is absolutely no reason to have a "smart" refrigerator. It's a refrigerator. It should only do two things: keep the stuff in the fridge cool and the stuff in the freezer frozen.

Anything else is a waste of money.

But they have no problem paying $50 to have a Big Mac delivered to them.

Perhaps a rethinking is in order.

You missed the best part and directly related to this story. Texas got rid of the mandate that construction companies provide breaks for their workers in high heat.

This doesn't mean the company can't give their workers breaks, just that it is no longer mandated. How many do you think no longer give these breaks?

I had a GRiD 1530 laptop in 1991 that did exactly that.
It was as amazing as it was awful.

This is one of the oldest rationalizations for shitty behavior: "if I won't do it, somebody else will anyway".

Yup, and it's used to this day to justify genocide.

This is no different than requiring the manufacturer to include a warning about the stove tipping over if there is no anti-tipping bracket installed. Consumers are being warned of the issue.

If they're going to whine about this, might as well whine about every other warning they are required to provide with their product.

Let's see, MAGAts are anti-actual-education. They're sure that one term of college will steal their kids, and make them leftists.

Meanwhile, assholes in HR, who don't know what the company does, or what the hiring manager actually needs, add more and more requirements for degrees and certifications.

Right. You might run into assholes like you, who are terrified of other people. And people like you, who've never been on a train.

You remind me ot the idiots in Chicago, "oh, my car's more convenient"... as they're commuting down the interstate, sitting in ludicrous traffic jams, spending $20/day to park... as I rode in the Metra, Chicago's commuter rail, right by them.

You're boring, loser. I understand you believe only white male Americans can come up with stuff, and the Chinese (or anyone else) can't possibly innovate and do research.

Wrong answer.

No, they don't know how to run a business. They're Friedmanites, and all they know is ROI, never mind the company continuing to exist.

The Federal Reserve is only getting a response rate of approximately 42% when it sends out its surveyes. Since they only send out a little over one thousand surveys, trying to guesstimate policy for an entire country based on that response rate is effectively impossible.

First, their sample size is too small to begin with. They should sample at least three times the number they currently do. Second, who they sample also needs expanded. Getting a response from Corning is significantly different than getting a response from Billy Bob's Downhome Fried Chicken in Bumfook, Louisiana.

This lack of response, as this article relates, carries over into people getting surveys. Being asked 5-10 questions is far different than being given a booklet of 100 questions to answer. You need to make it easy for people to respond. Blind calling no longer works, as many on here have pointed out. Send people a letter with uniquely identifiable information they can use to complete a survey online. Since they won't be handing out their personal information it will make it easier for people to respond. Just use the code given and keep it down to a few questions.

Shit, why pay them at all 'if I don't have to'?
That's the end point utopia they are working towards.
Seems they all have in common some weird 'if I was the last man on earth' syndrome.

We're only about 20% there, but they're accelerating with all the effort and focus they can muster.

You're an ignorant slut. You have no idea what unions do for the members.

Oh, and you have this delusion that union dues are big bucks - wrong-o. They average 2-3% of your wages. And the head of the biggest union, the AFL-CIO, gets about $350k. Now, how much does your fucking CEO make, millions?