{"id":1020539,"date":"2026-07-13T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020539"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:56:42","slug":"microsoft-responds-to-h-1b-visa-conspiracy-theories-about-layoffs-says-lets-clear-it-up-that-majority-of-roles-impacted-were-not-american-and-h-1b-figures-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/microsoft-responds-to-h-1b-visa-conspiracy-theories-about-layoffs-says-lets-clear-it-up-that-majority-of-roles-impacted-were-not-american-and-h-1b-figures-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft responds to H-1B visa conspiracy theories about layoffs; says: Let&#8217;s clear it up that majority of roles impacted were not American and H-1B figures are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s communications chief has stepped in to shut down a claim spreading online that the company fired American workers only to replace them with H-1B visa holders. Frank X. Shaw, who leads communications at Microsoft, posted a point-by-point rebuttal after the theory picked up steam in the days following the company&#8217;s July 6 announcement that it was cutting 4,800 jobs, roughly 2.1% of its global workforce, with the Xbox division absorbing the heaviest blow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lots of bad information out there\u2014let&#8217;s clear it up,&#8221; Shaw wrote. His central argument: the workforce changes were made because the Xbox business is struggling, not because Microsoft wanted cheaper foreign labour. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s communications chief has stepped in to shut down a claim spreading online that the company fired American workers only to replace them with H-1B visa holders. Frank X. Shaw, who leads communications at Microsoft, posted a point-by-point rebuttal after the theory picked up steam in the days following the company&#8217;s July 6 announcement that it was cutting 4,800 jobs, roughly 2.1% of its global workforce, with the Xbox division absorbing the heaviest blow. &#8220;Lots of bad information out there\u2014let&#8217;s clear it up,&#8221; Shaw wrote. His central argument: the workforce changes were made because the Xbox business is struggling, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020539","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020540,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020539\/revisions\/1020540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}