Microsoft Responds To H-1B Visa Criticism after JD Vance's Layoff Rebuke | Spotlight | N18G

Microsoft Responds To H-1B Visa Criticism after JD Vance's Layoff Rebuke | Spotlight | N18G

Microsoft has responded to the criticism that it fired American employees to hire foreign cheap labor saying that H-1B applications are no way related to the recent job eliminations and many employees on H-1Bs also lost their jobs. The statement comes amid an intense debate over Microsoft's announcement of 9,000 layoffs while the company reportedly made 4712 applications for H-1B visas. “In the past 12 months, 78% of the petitions we filed were extensions for existing employees and not new employees coming to the U.S.,” the company said in a statement.  

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