{"id":943885,"date":"2025-07-05T06:35:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=943885"},"modified":"2025-07-05T06:51:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T01:21:13","slug":"microsofts-h-1b-hiring-spree-draws-criticism-amid-us-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/05\/microsofts-h-1b-hiring-spree-draws-criticism-amid-us-job-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s H-1B hiring spree draws criticism amid US job cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is facing increasing criticism over its H-1B visa filings, with fresh scrutiny linking the company&#8217;s foreign hiring plans to recent job cuts in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>According to US labour department filings, Microsoft put in 14,181 visa applications in FY2025 Q2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is facing increasing criticism over its H-1B visa filings, with fresh scrutiny linking the company&#8217;s foreign hiring plans to recent job cuts in the United States. According to US labour department filings, Microsoft put in 14,181 visa applications in FY2025 Q2.<\/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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943885","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=943885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}