{"id":983226,"date":"2026-01-03T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983226"},"modified":"2026-01-03T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T06:51:51","slug":"h-1bs-sit-on-payroll-while-waiting-us-investor-says-amazons-remote-work-policy-doesnt-actually-let-indians-do-their-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/03\/h-1bs-sit-on-payroll-while-waiting-us-investor-says-amazons-remote-work-policy-doesnt-actually-let-indians-do-their-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018H-1Bs sit on payroll while waiting\u2026\u2019: US investor says Amazon\u2019s remote work policy \u2018doesn\u2019t actually let Indians do their jobs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has introduced a temporary remote work policy for employees stranded in India due to H-1B visa delays, but the company\u2019s latest memo makes clear that these workers cannot actually perform most of their job functions.US investor and Ed-Tech chairman Hany Girgis weighed in on the situation on X, saying Amazon \u201cfound a workaround for H-1B visa delays. But he claimed that the idea doesn\u2019t actually let people work.<\/p>\n<p>The memo outlines strict restrictions: employees cannot code, test, troubleshoot, make strategic decisions, interact with customers, negotiate contracts, or access Amazon buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has introduced a temporary remote work policy for employees stranded in India due to H-1B visa delays, but the company\u2019s latest memo makes clear that these workers cannot actually perform most of their job functions.US investor and Ed-Tech chairman Hany Girgis weighed in on the situation on X, saying Amazon \u201cfound a workaround for H-1B visa delays. But he claimed that the idea doesn\u2019t actually let people work. The memo outlines strict restrictions: employees cannot code, test, troubleshoot, make strategic decisions, interact with customers, negotiate contracts, or access Amazon buildings.<\/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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983226","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=983226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}