Microsoft Lays Off Thousands While Demanding More H1-B Visas

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Tech giant Microsoft announced Wednesday that it will be laying off approximately 7,800 employees worldwide, bringing a denunciation from a federal lawmaker who says the firings expose the company’s calls for more immigration.

The firings, which will eliminate about 7 percent of the company’s workforce, are concentrated in Microsoft’s troubled mobile phone business, and will eliminate most of the remaining employees from its purchase of Nokia’s phone operation in 2013. Only some of the layoffs are in the U.S., with Finland being hit especially hard with over 2,ooo jobs lost. The firings follow up on the 18,000 layoffs the company made last year, which were also concentrated in the phone business.

Now, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is slamming Microsoft, saying the layoffs show it is being dishonest when it lobbies for increased immigration into the United States.

“Microsoft has shed roughly 1/5th of its workforce in the past couple years,” Sessions said in a statement sent to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “And yet Microsoft, perhaps more than any other major U.S. company, has claimed it suffers from a shortage of capable American workers and must therefore import more H-1B foreign guest workers.”



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/08/microsoft-lays-off-thousands-while-demanding-more-h1-b-visas/

[KamaAina]

1. Daily Caller?!

At DU?!

[Human101948]

3. Apply "broken clock" axiom...

In this case they are correct.

[ohnoyoudidnt]

8. They are probably right about this one.

Disney, Microsoft, hospitals are also doing it. This H1B abuse must stop, or it will get much worse.

[KamaAina]

9. But there must be another source for this.

That wouldn't drive clicks to Tucker the Fscker.

[Art_from_Ark]

10. It's not too hard to find other sources for this

For example,

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2490207/technology-law-regulation/u-s--senator-blasts-microsoft-s-h-1b-push-as-it-lays-off-18-000-workers.html

[KamaAina]

12. If only the OP had searched for that.

[lpbk2713]

2. But before they leave ...

the terminated employees will be expected to train their replacements.

SOP

[leveymg]

4. Wonder if the bright light at MS who suggested they go into handhelds is still working there?

A breakthrough in Hardware-operating system software that didn't happen. Like the giant Elizabethtown shoe catastrophe, only much bigger.

A lot of others aren't working at MS, anymore. That's the story here.

[jeff47]

7. Reportedly it was Ballmer's idea. And he's gone. (nt)

[MisterP]

11. that's what helped tank Borders: Kobo anyone?

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Word out in the field is that the product produced from these

workers might be quick, but it isn't carefully thought out. It's cumbersome and nearly impossible to grow the code. They use unnecessary coding and the programs are heavy.

Someone should really research what they come up with, because they may not be the code masters that everyone claims they are.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. kick

[AzDar]

13. Will wonders never cease? This is the second time in a few weeks Ol' Jeff has been fighting

on the righteous side of an issue (objecting to the TPP being the first: Thanks, Obama! )