Do you work with many foreign workers?

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1. There’s a few in my building (state dept of transportation).

2. At my current store, I work with several Mexicans, an Australian, a Frenchman, a Filipina, and a German.

   I’ll be transferring back to my old store in a couple of days. There there is a [Nigerien](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger) and a Mexican.

3. Very common in my industry ( software development) Most places I’ve worked, they make up the majority.

4. Yeah, software engineer here, I work with a fair number of Russian (and a Belorussian) and Chinese folks, a few from assorted Eastern Europe or Central Asia countries.

5. I work in a fast-growing consulting company, and we have a pretty significant number of employees from India, China and Europe. Most of them came to the US to get their education, so we hired a lot of them straight out of college.

6. I work with people from India and the Philippines quite a bit. Most large American cities have immigrant populations, so having coworkers from around the world, whether they’re US citizens or not, is very common.

7. I worked a bunch of different jobs. Most were from the United States. I worked a computer repair job where alot of people born outside of the United States.

8. A bunch.

9. Not really. My job is only open to US citizens, so there are very few people from outside of the country. Only two I know about are someone who immigrated from Pakistan and someone whose family fled Cuba when he was a kid.

10. My main job is standing in a beer distributor by myself for seven hours a day, so no. I do, however, also collect rent from workers for a large natural gas plant that are living in my boss’s RV park for the time being and a lot of them are from Central America. Two guys from Belize, one from Mexico, one from Panama, and three from Costs Rica.

11. We never interacted with whatever department they were in, but when we were in the old office the team I was in had various jokes about how a bunch of Indian workers would come through at exactly the same times every day on their way to the break room (which had coffee and tea).

12. I spent most of my career in automotive interiors. 10 years with a Japanese auto maker and 10 years with German autos. But all in USA. So I had lots of foreign colleagues. Now I’m in a different industry in the midwest and have almost no foreign workers.

13. Depends on the industry. Engineering, medical, tech have lots of Asian people (including India). Construction has lots of central and South Americans.

14. There are several South Asians, Chinese, and Europeans in our office. I work in engineering.

    I used to work for a French company and they had a penchant for sending young French engineers over to the US for experience. Some stayed, others went back home.

15. Not very common in my area. Foreigners aren’t exactly lining up to immigrate to small town, South Carolina.

    At my current workplace, we did have an Australian working in the helpdesk department. She had a bad habit of degrading and talking down to the clients that called in for help. She had to be reminded a couple times that if the customer’s knew how to support their own equipment, then her job wouldn’t be needed.

16. Extremely common here too. I worked with a man from Zurich for years. On our production floor the guy with the longest tenure is a Chinese immigrant who’s been working here for 30 years. Over the years I’ve worked with German, British, and Indian nationals regularly. I even worked with a Canadian woman for whom French was her first language.

17. Extremely common in healthcare.

18. I am a teacher, we have a few teachers that were born outside of the US, most have become citizens. We have more support staff that are foreign born.

19. Yep. I work with one person from India, one more from India and Singapore, one from Iran (used to be two), and a Mexican guy (not sure if he was born in the us or not) daily. Though they all have green cards. People from Mexico are pretty common where I’ve lived so that would be pretty common.

20. A significant percentage of the people at my company are foreign-born. That I recall, I’ve worked with people from China, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Marshall Islands, Ireland, UK, France, Iceland, Greece, Russia, Bulgaria, Moldova, South Africa, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, Pakistan, and many from India.

21. Pretty common when I was working in Boston. Less common here in VT but a foreign worker would be no means be unusual.

22. I wouldn’t call them foreigners, but a significant portion of my coworkers were born outside of the US (I’m a soldier)

    I’ve met and worked with Mexicans, Brits, Koreans, Chinese, Australians, Haitians, Gambians, Filipinos, Brazilians, etc

23. My company has some contract workers, mostly from India. They usually come in for specific projects and are there for a year or so.

    We also have a call center in Barbados that deals with some overflow, as well as a few offices in Canada.

24. I’m in California/Bay Area. My state’s population historically grew because of foreign immigration and the Bay is known for its HB1 visas. I don’t think I’ve ever worked at a single place where there weren’t a good amount of foreigners.

25. Foreign as in people who live here but are not American-born? Yes, that’s very common especially if you live in a place with a high number of immigrants.

    Foreign as in people who moved here to take on a specific role in a company or a transfer? Not uncommon, but probably happens in more specialized industries.

26. I do. I am one myself and a bunch of my colleagues are first and second generation immigrants. Speaking a second language is very useful in aviation.

27. I work in advertising. There are people from all over the world in my office. Canada, Mexico, Colombia, UK, France, Ukraine, Georgia, Israel, India, Pakistan, and Korea are all countires that I know are represented in my office. Some of these folks are immigrants that have relocated their families and are building roots in the US others are just having their little American adventure while they are young.

28. My coworker is Russian and our shop foreman is from Mexico

29. Very common in my field (trainer at a tech company).

30. I used to work with many. Maybe a third to half of the two academic research departments were foreign students or faculty. Admin was much more likely to be American.

    My previous job in insurance had a lot of foreign clients but not employees in my department. The IT department was heavily Indian but we didn’t interact with them much. My new job in insurance is mostly non-foreign for both clients and employees.

31. West coast healthcare, lots of Filipinos in my immediate office.

32. Not anymore.

    But my first job put of college I worked with a ton of Africans (from Africa, not the American variety).

    Most were from Liberia, but the guy I worked closest with was from Ghana. I also worked closely with a Chinese guy and a guy from Uzbekistan.

    All of them were great guys and I miss that job all the time.

33. My mother does. She works in health insurance. A lot of the smart people she works with/ has worked with are from India, Japan, or China.

34. Do you mean foriegn born Americans?

    Right now i have coworkers from Cambodia, Thailand, Russia, Iran Saudi Arabia, Philippines, and Mexico, just off the top of my head

35. I have worked with vietnamese, salvadorians, dominicans, kenyans and jamaicans, to name a few, 2 different states, 2 different type of jobs

36. It’s very common in my industry (finance and insurance).

37. Very common. My team at work is five people and two of them are not American (one is Brazilian and one is British). We also recently had a Nigerian guy in my team but he left for another opportunity. I also have some coworkers who were born in other countries but I’m pretty sure are now American citizens. It’s a bit rude to ask someone about their citizenship status so I’m not totally sure.

38. At most of the restaurant jobs I’ve had the back of house was majority Hispanic immigrants.

39. Yes. The tech industry has a large number of people on H1-Bs. I work with a bunch of people with doctorates from all over the world.

40. Extremely common. I’d guess that probably half of the people I work with were born in other countries. This is in a tech job.

41. I work for the local government. So not that often

42. Pretty much none