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Posted on 05/22/2025 3:48:22 AM PDT by 11th_VA
Walmart is cutting 1,500 jobs in a bid to reduce expenses and streamline decision-making, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. A separate Bloomberg report stated that the layoffs will affect corporate staff at the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, as well as employees in other office locations. The cuts include roles within Walmart’s global technology team, according to sources familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly.
News of Walmart cutting jobs in technology has reignited the H1B row, with some accusing the world’s biggest retailer of undercutting American jobs for its own profit.
The H1B programme allows skilled workers to live and work legally in the United States. Indians make up the largest group of H1B visa holders in the United States, particularly in the technology sector. Most Indian H1B visa holders work in IT, and there have been concerns about H1Bs replacing American employees.
Some companies have been accused of using the H1B system to place workers in the US temporarily and then shift the work offshore to India.
H1Bs replacing American workers?
On X, a post from Barbara Grant read: “Oh, guess what? The large layoffs today at Walmart... are from its technology team. You know, the kind of US worker who's replaced by H1B.”
“1500. Wow that's a bloodbath. How many H-1Bs are they bringing in next year?” asked one X user.
“There should be strict rules - no citizen is laid off until all visa workers are let go. H1B or any visa was brought in to fill the gap, not to replace Americans,” an X user named Sara opined.
The India connect
Similar sentiments were expressed on other platforms. In a thread on TheLayoff.com, many blamed Indian workers for taking jobs meant for Americans.
One person on the thread said that walking into the Walmart David Glass Technology Center in Bentonville is like walking into an airport in India. “The problem with the H1B topic is that if you walk into DGTC you might as well have stepped out of an airport in India,” the person said. “They don't even have the common respect to speak English while at the office.”
He added that “they're also taking jobs away from US citizens. All the while they're sending their money back to India and refusing to assimilate into our society.”
“Stop hating H1B people folks - No new H1B hires in Sunnyvale since 2024. The main issue isn't H1B, but outsourcing. It's US companies outsourcing for cheaper labor that's impacting jobs, not the visa holders,” read one comment which was downvoted several times…
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Most of the corporations in my states are still offshoring like gangbusters. They are highly profitable, but pleading high Opex as a reason to slash the American work force.
Remove all limits on the number of H1bs and other work visas allowed per year. At the same time charge an annual $50,000 fee for each work visa. (we can discuss making it $75,000). The key is to make it MORE EXPENSIVE to hire foreigners than it is to hire Americans.
If companies “need” foreign workers that badly let them have all the ones they want. Though I’m betting they will discover they “need” remarkably fewer foreign workers once it costs them more money to employ them than it would cost to employ Americans. The US is one of the only countries in the world that allows this scam. Other countries make their domestic employers jump through all kinds of hoops to bring in foreigners rather than employ locals.
“Stop hating H1B people folks…”
…obviously a TDS liberal. Always accusing people of “hating”. A majority of H1Bs don’t assimilate. And they do send their money back to India and they take over neighborhoods. I’m in Real Estate and I see that a lot.
Whom ever who works for walmart and is putting out this so called news should be one of the ones let go; their usefulness lies elsewhere with the tds ers.
Small companies have employed more and if dempctat rules laws and givesways would be redacted ,,, lookout.
Redact with a pen, and not an autopen.
Redact the Biden Error.
The problem is, if you let H-1Bs in, they learn the job, then the company can move the entire office off shore … need to solve that problem
H1B should be shut down completely.
Drop in a thimble. The will be office workers or higher.
Already too few in stores.
You can smell the curry when you walk into Walmart Headquarters.
You’re an idiot.
The next Congress would change the law by dropping the fee to zero OR by offering a cash bounty to the employer, leaving the unlimited part intact.
Only in the loosest sense of the word "learn."
Well Arkansas is already a IT desert anyways...been in IT for over 20 years thinking maybe time for a change if I get laid off. So much for the Trump economy..
Well that's an idiotic response.
The next Congress can change any law they want to. That's not a good reason to enact a law now. Make it MORE EXPENSIVE to hire foreigners and companies will hire fewer of them and will instead hire Americans.....and don't tell me they'll just outsource everything. They already tried that and it did not work well. That's why they brought in all the H1Bs - because outsourcing failed.
What’s with the immediate insult?
Violation of FR rules. Completely unnecessary.
The main issue isn’t H1B, but outsourcing.
As long as companies have to fund the health insurance of their employees, and not have to worry about funding the healh insurance of Sanjay in Mumbai, American workers will be at a disadvantage.
Traveling through Norristown Pennsylvania to King of Prussia, you’d think it were Calcutta.
You see the woman in native dress waiting at bus stops (the men with their turbans shaped like a genie lamp), and posters on the restaurant walls depicting their Gods Shiva, Ganesha, and Vishnu.
A lot of them are untouchables (Dalit), and eventually they will bring with them the Calcutta sewage.
Any attempted reform of the h-1b visas will always fail. The only solution is to end it.
Ran into a grocery gatherer. She spoke zero English.
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