body shoppers?

[Tonyo Garcia]

hi,
can anyone please enlighten me regarding body shoppers? who are they? what do they do? i always see them posted here but don't know why we should avoid them.

thanks!

[Kripal Singh]

Googling for "body shopper"

body shopper noun. A contractor in a Third World country who recruits local programmers and shops them around to software companies in North America.


Example Citation:


"In San Francisco, contract programmers undercut by foreign body shoppers are waging a campaign to get immigration authorities to stop issuing short-term visas to foreign programmers."
�Leslie Helm, "Creating High-Tech Sweatshops," The Los Angeles Times

[Mark Herschberg]

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