Seems like it’s Cosmopolitan Day here at BNET.
Over at the Corner Office, Peter Galuszka notes that U.S. companies are, in increasing numbers, tapping executives and board members from abroad, notably China and India (Or, as the kids are calling it, Chindia.)
Meanwhile, BNET1’s Jessica Stillman finds that, while lots of “Chindian” PhD’s are getting their degrees in the U.S., many are opting to take their knowledge to Canada to avoid Uncle Sam’s draconian H1-B visa policies. In fact, Canada’s government is openly recruiting U.S.-trained but H1-B-challenged foreign PhDs. Before Canada was a haven for dope-smoking, hair-farming draft-dodgers. Now it’s a haven for the world’s most highly educated victims of pointless American xenophobia.
As if that’s not enough, Harvard’s Sean Silverthorne unearths a study that shows that your nice, comfy, white collar job is just as in danger of going overseas – maybe to Chindia – as a mill worker’s. Hey, they’ve already begun to outsource copy editors. Can lawyers, project managers, research analysts and — gulp! — bloggers be that far off?
Ah, well. They say “globality” is the new black, anyway.
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