Next I'd like to see the President penalize American tech companies that fire their American workers and replace them with cheap overseas employees. There's not nearly as much talk about this anymore but that outsourcing epidemic continues.
I want to be careful and maintain the privacy of my customer, but as an example:
I work in cyber security and my biggest customer is a giant company. Think top 10 on the Fortune 100 list.
They have one of the best IT shops I've ever worked with. Well managed, consistent standards, smart use of automation, and they're not afraid to build their own tools when they're able to hire the talent required.
They pay slightly below market rate but a lot of talented people stick around because the company is very stable and layoffs have been extremely rare.
But, some new kids entered the c-suite two years ago. They want to empty out their cutting edge data centers that are run like a precision watch by their people, and stuff all that data into the cloud.
And now that this process has started, the full picture has become clear:
-Move all the data to one central platform.
-Lay off all of the American workers (their IT team is 85% U.S. based) under the faulty premise that things are "simple" now that everything is in the cloud.
-Increase profits.
I have no doubt many of you in the IT field know that nobody winds up saving money by moving to the cloud. But regardless, the new executives want to torch a massive IT staff that functions like a well oiled machine so that they can outsource all of those jobs to foreign workers making 20-30k per year.
There MUST be a price to pay for companies that do this. IT workers have been treated like potato chips for far too long.
Next I'd like to see the President penalize American tech companies that fire their American workers and replace them with cheap overseas employees. There's not nearly as much talk about this anymore but that outsourcing epidemic continues.
I want to be careful and maintain the privacy of my customer, but as an example:
I work in cyber security and my biggest customer is a giant company. Think top 10 on the Fortune 100 list.
They have one of the best IT shops I've ever worked with. Well managed, consistent standards, smart use of automation, and they're not afraid to build their own tools when they're able to hire the talent required.
They pay slightly below market rate but a lot of talented people stick around because the company is very stable and layoffs have been extremely rare.
But, some new kids entered the c-suite two years ago. They want to empty out their cutting edge data centers that are run like a precision watch by their people, and stuff all that data into the cloud.
And now that this process has started, the full picture has become clear:
-Move all the data to one central platform.
-Lay off all of the American workers (their IT team is 85% U.S. based) under the faulty premise that things are "simple" now that everything is in the cloud.
-Increase profits.
I have no doubt many of you in the IT field know that nobody winds up saving money by moving to the cloud. But regardless, the new executives want to torch a massive IT staff that functions like a well oiled machine so that they can outsource all of those jobs to foreign workers making 20-30k per year.
There MUST be a price to pay for companies that do this. IT workers have been treated like potato chips for far too long.