A Hartford–Springfield public-records investigation
The tech jobs didn’t disappear. They moved.
For twenty years, this region’s anchor employers staffed technology work through visa contractors instead of hiring locally. Since 2020 they have stopped bothering with the visas: MassMutual, Voya, Evernorth, The Hartford, Pratt & Whitney, and Otis now run their own technology centers in India. Federal trade rulings, visa filings, and the companies’ own announcements tell the same story—the work is leaving, and Connecticut subsidized some of the companies while they moved it.
The short version
Hire through contractors. Then skip the contractors and move the work.
Between 2021 and 2024, employers filed 3,124 certified visa applications for tech jobs in this six-county region—70% of the requested positions through IT-services firms, not the companies where the work is done. Those filings fell by a third while national filings rose. Not because the work came home: the same companies were opening technology centers in Hyderabad and Bengaluru, and the U.S. Labor Department had already ruled—seven times since 2010—that their local technology work had moved offshore.
An Aetna vice president said the quiet part in the early 2000s, when the company had hundreds of Infosys programmers in Bangalore: it was “like a remote office for us in India”—at $20 an hour against $60 here.
Step one: the visa years
Five contractors filed two of every five applications.
Cognizant, Infosys, LTIMindtree, Accenture, and Tata Consultancy Services filed 1,310 of the region’s 3,124 certified tech-job applications from 2021 through 2024. Infosys alone requested 1,463 positions—about six workers per application, where everyone else averages one. Nearly nine in ten applications were for software or systems roles; cybersecurity was one in two hundred. Then the pipeline shrank: regional filings fell 33% while national filings rose 3%.
Certified applications
Federal fiscal year; jobs located in the six-county region
What is a certified application?
A Labor Condition Application is the form an employer files before seeking an H-1B visa for a specific job and place. Certification means the form met Labor Department requirements—not that a visa was issued or a person was hired.
The companies behind the filings
Step two: skip the middleman
The same companies opened their own centers in India.
Every large employer in the filings above now owns offshore technology capacity. The scale runs one way: The Hartford’s new domestic tech office in Columbus, Ohio holds about 75 people. Its Hyderabad center, opened five months earlier, plans about 1,200.
Step three: the paper trail
The federal government ruled the work moved. Seven times.
Trade Adjustment Assistance determinations are U.S. Labor Department rulings that specific workers lost their jobs because their work shifted to a foreign country. Between 2010 and 2021 those rulings named the technology units of nearly every anchor employer in this region. Congress let the program lapse on July 1, 2022—so the rulings stop there, not the shifts.
The pattern outlived the program. Talcott Resolution signed a master services agreement with Cognizant in 2019; its 2026 fund filings disclose Cognizant taking over annuity administration, customer support, and claims while 101 Hartford operations and IT jobs end in April 2026.
Step four: the cuts at home
While the offshore centers grew, the local payrolls shrank.
Technology-job losses here rarely appear in official layoff notices—work is rebadged to vendors, cut in rounds below reporting thresholds, or simply not replaced. These are the documented cases at the companies in this investigation.
Eversource (Northeast Utilities)
Berlin — the precedent: ~200 of ~400 IT jobs outsourced to Infosys and TCS; departing workers trained their replacements to receive severance.
Voya
Windsor — IT offshoring federally certified; no layoff notice was ever filed.
CVS Health / Aetna
Hartford — seven layoff notices at or reporting to the Aetna headquarters; roughly 450 of the 1,600+ noticed positions were held by Connecticut residents.
Talcott Resolution
Hartford — operations and IT functions closed as Cognizant assumes administration.
Baystate Health
Springfield — four rounds of corporate cuts including dozens of IT jobs; each round below the notice threshold.
The question that matters
Why can’t the region keep this work?
Connecticut has paid to keep it. Cigna took the state’s first “First Five” incentive package in 2011—up to $71 million—while, that same year, it quietly moved accounting work to a New Delhi subcontractor with hundreds of IT jobs already in India. Infosys pledged 1,000 Hartford jobs by 2023 for a $14 million package and was reported at roughly 500 in 2025. The unanswered questions are cost and accountability: what the full gap between a local and an offshore technology worker actually is, and what every subsidy dollar bought. That is where this investigation goes next—and the blog’s first research note starts there.
The full record
Every employer in the data
All 681 employers that met the same location and occupation rules, 2021–2024. Inclusion is not an allegation—filing a visa application is lawful and routine. Names are standardized for capitalization only; separate legal companies stay separate.
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Methods
How to check this work.
Everything on this page comes from a public record you can pull yourself, and the pipeline that filters it is open source. Read the caveats before quoting numbers: a certified application is not a visa or a hire; only fiscal 2021–2024 files are directly comparable; requested positions are counted once per application; and 2025 is on hold pending a complete year-end file.