https://freerepublic.com/tag/ashasharma/ en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:24:04 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4387389/posts Microsoft just told 4,800 employees they no longer have a job. That is about 2.1% of its global workforce, and 1,600 of those cuts hit Xbox right away. The same company was approved this year to hire 2,273 employer-sponsored H-1B foreign workers. The comparison demands one caveat: nobody has shown that the same 1,600 Xbox workers, or the same 4,800 companywide, were swapped out one-for-one for visa holders. The political response has been blunt. The available data show overlapping corporate decisions, not a direct replacement map. Those two numbers sitting next to each other are why so many American tech... 100 Percent Fed Up https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4387389/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:24:04 GMT