{"id":944262,"date":"2025-07-07T07:32:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944262"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:13:59","slug":"microsoft-h1-b-request-not-for-upboots-after-layoffs-influencer-says-petitions-are-renewals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/microsoft-h1-b-request-not-for-upboots-after-layoffs-influencer-says-petitions-are-renewals\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft H1-B request not for \u2018upboots\u2019 after layoffs, influencer says petitions are renewals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft layoffs: Tech giant Microsoft has announced a fresh round of layoffs, cutting 9,000 jobs across various teams. However, the company is facing growing criticism, with many accusing it of using the H-1B visa programme to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign labour. Indian-origin tech influencer Debarghya \u2018Deedy\u2019 Das took to X (formerly Twitter) to challenge what he called a \u201cmisleading narrative\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft layoffs: Tech giant Microsoft has announced a fresh round of layoffs, cutting 9,000 jobs across various teams. However, the company is facing growing criticism, with many accusing it of using the H-1B visa programme to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign labour. Indian-origin tech influencer Debarghya \u2018Deedy\u2019 Das took to X (formerly Twitter) to challenge what he called a \u201cmisleading narrative\u201d.<\/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-944262","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\/944262","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=944262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}