The employees who kept the data systems humming in the vast Walt Disney fantasy fief did not suspect trouble when they were suddenly summoned to meetings with their boss.
While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.
Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.
“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” said one former worker, an American in his 40s who remains unemployed since hislast day at Disney on Jan. 30. “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.”...
...HCL America, a branch of a global company based in Noida, India, won a contract with Disney in 2012. In a statement, the company said details of the agreement were confidential. “As a company, we work very closely with the U.S. Department of Labor and strictly adhere to all visa guidelines and requirements to be complied with.”...
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Cutting costs by hiring contractors? Yes. The cost of keeping one full-time IT employee is not just the salary, but includes training, benefits, unemployment insurance, bonuses, etc. All those overhead expenses and then some can be done away with by hiring one contractor.
These foreign contracts are lured into going to the US with a big wage/salary increase. In comparison to what they made in India, it's a lot more. There's some cost of living adjustment over here, but they are still better off, unless they aren't good with budgeting their expenses.
250 full-time IT employees is a big expense.
While families rode the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train and searched for Nemo on clamobiles in the theme parks, these workers monitored computers in industrial buildings nearby, making sure millions of Walt Disney World ticket sales, store purchases and hotel reservations went through without a hitch. Some were performing so well that they thought they had been called in for bonuses.
Instead, about 250 Disney employees were told in late October that they would be laid off. Many of their jobs were transferred to immigrants on temporary visas for highly skilled technical workers, who were brought in by an outsourcing firm based in India. Over the next three months, some Disney employees were required to train their replacements to do the jobs they had lost.
“I just couldn’t believe they could fly people in to sit at our desks and take over our jobs exactly,” said one former worker, an American in his 40s who remains unemployed since hislast day at Disney on Jan. 30. “It was so humiliating to train somebody else to take over your job. I still can’t grasp it.”...
...HCL America, a branch of a global company based in Noida, India, won a contract with Disney in 2012. In a statement, the company said details of the agreement were confidential. “As a company, we work very closely with the U.S. Department of Labor and strictly adhere to all visa guidelines and requirements to be complied with.”...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/la...eign-replacements/ar-BBkE3Ud?ocid=mailsignout
Cutting costs by hiring contractors? Yes. The cost of keeping one full-time IT employee is not just the salary, but includes training, benefits, unemployment insurance, bonuses, etc. All those overhead expenses and then some can be done away with by hiring one contractor.
These foreign contracts are lured into going to the US with a big wage/salary increase. In comparison to what they made in India, it's a lot more. There's some cost of living adjustment over here, but they are still better off, unless they aren't good with budgeting their expenses.
250 full-time IT employees is a big expense.