I work for Cognizant (Score 2)

I've been reading /. for a long time, but just created an account now to comment here. I really don't have anything valuable to add. I just wanted to say that I'm sorry that this is happening. Hope with the elections close, you will be able to force your lawmakers to take a stand to protect your jobs. 200 employees protesting won't make any change. Even if you are not an employee or customer of EmblemHealth, you should stand in solidarity with them, because if it's their jobs today, it will be yours tomorrow. It is time American companies put people before profits. IMO, H1-B visa regulations might not prove to be as effective as you think (I'm only guessing). Currently I work (for Cognizant) from offshore for a large US insurance group. My project team consists of about 40% Americans working from US and 60% us from Cognizant. Most of us Cognizant employees work from offshore and don't have H1-B visas. There just need to be 1 or 2 people having visas in the US for us to co-ordinate the work. So I'm not sure a solution solely based on reducing the number of H1-B visas is going to work.