{"id":1020376,"date":"2026-07-13T08:26:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020376"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T02:57:24","slug":"h-1b-figures-are-not-xbox-specific-microsoft-slams-racist-backlash-against-ceo-asha-sharma-after-3200-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/h-1b-figures-are-not-xbox-specific-microsoft-slams-racist-backlash-against-ceo-asha-sharma-after-3200-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018H-1B figures are not Xbox specific\u2019: Microsoft slams racist backlash against CEO Asha Sharma after 3,200 layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has pushed back amid a flurry of racist conspiracy theories targeting its gaming empire and Indian-origin CEO Asha Sharma. The backlash started soon after the Big Tech firm outlined its huge layoff plans earlier this week, with a majority of the company-wide 4,800 job cuts corresponding to the Xbox division (3,200). Social media trolls and even Republican lawmakers have long doubled down on calls to scrap the H-1B program \u2014 linking layoffs to thousands of visa applications filed by tech giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has pushed back amid a flurry of racist conspiracy theories targeting its gaming empire and Indian-origin CEO Asha Sharma. The backlash started soon after the Big Tech firm outlined its huge layoff plans earlier this week, with a majority of the company-wide 4,800 job cuts corresponding to the Xbox division (3,200). Social media trolls and even Republican lawmakers have long doubled down on calls to scrap the H-1B program \u2014 linking layoffs to thousands of visa applications filed by tech giants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020396,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020376\/revisions\/1020396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}