Essay About Direct Link And Toys R Us

Toys R Us
In an article dated September 29, 2015, Julia Preston discusses Toys R Us brining temporary foreign workers into the US in order to ultimately move jobs overseas. The temporary visa program is known as H-1B and allows foreign workers, with college degrees and “highly specialized knowledge” to come to the United States and fill a job that would otherwise be left vacant. Preston describes a young woman from India working side by side with a Toys R Us accountant, learning every aspect of her job over the course of four weeks. After the next few months, a total of eight outsourced workers came to the US and did the same thing. They learned every specific detail in order to create job manuals for 67 different jobs!While there has been a fair share of controversy surrounding the H-1B and the practices of American companies, it is not intended to replace American jobs that Americans were doing in this country. Preston points out almost the opposite, Indian workers are coming to America, with no particular specialized skill set and being trained by the Americans that are being laid off! Toys R Us laid off approximately 70 workers (mainly in Accounting) and outsourced the jobs to India. A spokeswoman for Toys R Us stated that staff reduction was “part of designing a streamlined, more efficient global organization to make it fit for growth.” She went on to say that “the outsourcing resulted in significant cost savings.”Direct Link: