New hiring by tech companies: In view of the possibility of global recession from the year 2022, many tech companies have done large-scale layoffs. This includes the names of many companies like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta.
After retrenchment, now these companies have started planning for recruitment, but even in this process of recruitment, companies have found a way to reduce their expenses. A report has claimed that companies, which were laying off on a large scale for the past few months, are now looking for low-wage workers in the US from other countries and for this they have applied for H1B visas. Have done
Many companies applied for H1B workers visa
According to a report by independent investigative journalist Li Fang, data released by the US Department of Labor revealed that companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Zoom, Salesforce have applied for thousands of H1B worker visas. The special thing is that all these companies have recently done large scale layoffs in the last few months. After this, now he is going to recruit many new foreign employees. It also includes a large number of Indian employees.
There is a demand for low paid H1B workers
It has also come to know from this report that companies are recruiting tech employees on low salary only after firing people working on high salary. For example, Google recently laid off 12,000 employees. The company announced this in January. The company then applied for H1B visas for software engineers, consultants and experienced researchers. Apart from this, Waymo, owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, has also applied for such a visa.
Amazon applied for H1B workers visa
Apart from Google, Amazon is also planning to recruit employees after laying off 18,000 employees in January and 9,000 in March. According to the report, the company has applied for many low-paid H1B visa workers. Apart from this, the name of Microsoft is also included in this list, which has recently shown the way out to 5 percent of its total workforce i.e. 10,000 employees.
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