{"id":1636,"date":"2010-08-22T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T09:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/clarification-schumer_082210\/"},"modified":"2010-08-22T09:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T09:36:00","slug":"clarification-schumer_082210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/clarification-schumer_082210\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifying the Chucky chop shop issue:  what should the US government do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4381\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4381 \" title=\"governance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/governance.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"198\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The US government: importing the right talent<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>I received a ton of email and <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/why-chuck-needs-to-get-the-chop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>blog comments<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0this week from various people airing their views on Senator Schumer&#8217;s visa-fee hike<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 They tended to be in the form of one of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;Right on &#8211; this guy is all about protectionism and has little idea how to create jobs&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;The policy is so toothless, it&#8217;s barely worth talking about&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s only targeting firms who excessively use H1B staff, so what&#8217;s wrong with that?&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;We have to protect American jobs&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;I never knew you were a Republican&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All fair comments &#8211; except the last one.\u00a0 Firstly, my politics have always been left-of-center &#8211; I am merely a global realist and believe in intelligent, informed\u00a0debate\u00a0on these tough issues.\u00a0 Secondly, it never ceases to amaze me how polarized people in the US are when it comes to politics.\u00a0 You&#8217;re either Democrat or Republican &#8211; there&#8217;s now <em>common ground<\/em> on anything.\u00a0 And thirdly, I&#8217;m not American anyway, so it&#8217;s a moot point.<\/p>\n<p>The other major point that needs to be made, is that this policy does nothing to create American jobs &#8211; it&#8217;s merely political grandstanding from the protectionist lobby.\u00a0 As we pointed out, the visa-hike will only encourage further offshoring, and the\u00a0inflated fee is not enough to have any meaningful impact on altering current dynamics.\u00a0 Moreover, it&#8217;s pretty hard to couch these political actions as anything but protecti0nist politics when the Senator in the driving seat brands one of the leading Indian IT services firms a &#8220;chop shop&#8221; (detracted, or\u00a0whatever &#8211; he said it).<\/p>\n<p><strong>What options, then,\u00a0could the US government\u00a0consider, if\u00a0it wants to &#8220;stop&#8221; Indian IT services firms bringing temporary IT \u00a0staff over to the US, and create an environment for fostering onshore technology employment and innovation?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) Give Indian services firms tax-incentives that would sufficiently motivate them to hire and train US IT employees.\u00a0 Many of these firms provide a great training ground for new IT talent &#8211; now let&#8217;s ensure they are motivated to train and develop talent in the US and not just offshore staff.\u00a0 Many leading Indian firms have proved extremely good at training, developing and motivating young IT talent, so why not get us a piece of the action?<\/p>\n<p>2) Give US\u00a0enterprises tax-incentives for creating new onshore IT jobs.\u00a0 This won&#8217;t be any harder to administer that call center tariff etc.<\/p>\n<p>3) Establish an oversight committee that will\u00a0devise an\u00a0immigration strategy to encourage top\u00a0talent into the country and ensure it <em>stays<\/em> here.\u00a0 Ensure immigration policies are focused on developing the talent pool in the country and not open to abuse;<\/p>\n<p>4) Establish more dynamic partnerships between academic institutions and businesses.\u00a0\u00a0 We don&#8217;t see enough involvement from the academic sectors in the global sourcing industry today &#8211; a few firms,\u00a0such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsinmotion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Systems In Motion<\/a>, are pushing the agenda, but these firms need\u00a0 a lot more investment to get anything like the scale and execution capability to be effective\u00a0in the global market place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We live in\u00a0 global economy and we need to focus on being competitive for a larger piece of the pie, not trying to protect limply\u00a0the dwindling one we have left.\u00a0 The Chinese economy\u00a0is the new powerhouse &#8211; we need to ensure we have the innovators, thinkers and operators to compete effectively.\u00a0 Countries with developing talent, such as India, can help us be competitive, as long as we create smart entrepreneurial environments to work with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government: importing the right talent I received a ton of email and blog comments\u00a0this week from various people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[832],"tags":[213],"ppma_author":[19],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Clarifying the Chucky chop shop issue: what should the US government do? - Horses for Sources | No Boundaries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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