{"id":79454,"date":"2019-03-20T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T22:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79454"},"modified":"2019-03-20T20:52:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:52:12","slug":"recode-us-companies-are-moving-tech-jobs-to-canada-rather-than-deal-with-presdient-trumps-immigration-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79454","title":{"rendered":"(Recode) US companies are moving tech jobs to Canada rather than deal with President Trump\u2019s immigration policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"fXrFop\">US companies are going to keep hiring foreign tech workers, even as the Trump administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2019\/2\/28\/18241522\/trump-h1b-tech-work-jobs-overseas\">makes doing so more difficult<\/a>. For a number of US companies that means expanding their operations in Canada, where hiring foreign nationals is much easier.<\/p>\n<p id=\"XtDgUG\">Demand for international workers remained high this year, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/trends.envoyglobal.com\/\">new Envoy Global survey<\/a> of more than 400 US hiring professionals, who represent big and small US companies and have all had experience hiring foreign employees.<\/p>\n<p id=\"ATPnt4\">Some 80 percent of employers expect their foreign worker headcount to either increase or stay the same in 2019, according to Envoy, which helps US companies navigate immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yC5DQk\">That tracks with US government immigration data, which shows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/USCIS\/Resources\/Reports%20and%20Studies\/Immigration%20Forms%20Data\/BAHA\/non-immigrant-worker-rfe-h-1b-quarterly-data-fy2015-fy2019-q1.pdf\">growing<\/a> number of applicants for high-skilled tech visas, known as H-1Bs, despite stricter policies toward immigration. H-1B recipients are all backed by US companies that say they are in need of specialized labor that isn\u2019t readily available in the US \u2014 which, in practice, includes a lot of tech workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2019\/3\/19\/18264391\/us-tech-jobs-canada-immigration-policies-trump\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US companies are going to keep hiring foreign tech workers, even as the Trump administration makes doing so more difficult. For a number of US companies that means expanding their operations in Canada, where hiring foreign nationals is much easier.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=79454\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,209,207,147,597,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-americau-s-a","category-canada","category-immigration","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79456,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79454\/revisions\/79456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}