Lilo, don't know if your company is experiencing the same issues, but my husband's company can no longer bring in workers from outside the country. They can't get work visas. If the current workers have to go home for some reason, they can't come back. They can still outsource work to other countries (most goes to Chennai), but the days of bringing over programmers to work on a special project for a year and then shipping them back is no longer an option. One of the guys in my husband's department couldn't even go back home for his mother-in-law's funeral.