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发信人: StanMarsh (ojo), 信区: USANews
标 题: 继川总严查H1B签证滥用问题后，印度外包公司改招美国本地人
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon May 15 12:50:20 2017, 美东)
‘Indian IT firms to layoff up to 2 lakh engineers annually for next 3 years’
The industry employs 3.9 million people and the majority of them have to be
retrained. “So, when we analyse these figures, it is clear that 30 to 40%
of the workforce cannot be retrained or re- skilled. So, assume that half of
this workforce can continue to work on old skills, then balance will become
redundant.
“So, the number of people who will become redundant in the next three years
will be about five to six lakhs. This will workout to, on a average,
between 1.75 lakh to 2 lakh per year for next three years,” Lakshmikanth
explained. However, he said job cuts will not take place in major cities
like Mumbai or Bengaluru, but cities like Coimbatore or a few remote places,
he said.
Lakshmikanth further said the IT services industry is passing through an
uncertain time as the growth in digital technologies like cloud-based
services is happening at a much faster pace and the companies are combining
learning of some of the new technologies and reskilling.
“Because of the changing technology, the most affected will be the
professionals aged 35 and above, for it would be very difficult for them to
get jobs,” Lakhsmikanth said. Asked if it is fair to blame US President
Donald Trump’s policy for job cuts, Lakshmikanth said it is not fair
because he has fulfilled the promise after winning the elections.
“How can we blame Trump, for he has fulfilled the election promise of
giving jobs to local people including IT professionals by tightening H1-B
visa norms, which were being misused by companies by paying less to foreign
professionals working in US. It is for companies to tackle the situation,
and such situation they have undergone in previous years. It is not new for
them. They know to tide over it,” he said.
Lakhsmikanth also said it is not fair even to target the Indian government
as the IT industry grew on its own in India, but at later stages respective
state governments and central governments provided them facilities like land
or creating special economic zones, among others.
http://www.livemint.com/Industry/Y0oIb1D6N1ADZDfq3BUhUM/Indian-IT-firms-to-layoff-up-to-2-lakh-engineers-annually-f.html |
