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Visa to lay off 7% of staff as efficiency push deepensVisa plans to cut about 2,600 jobs, representing seven percent of its workforce. These job reductions will primarily impact the technology ...
Tech layoffs: California software engineer's Google dream ended in weeks, lost job before 'a single day of real work', now back at AmazonTech layoffs: Gu Yichen's brief Google employment ended abruptly after just weeks as he was laid off before 'a single day of real work'. He...
‘Microsoft powered genocide for 994 days’: Employee quits in dramatic resignation email, sends 'unhappy email' to thousands of company's employees. Here's what he wroteA Microsoft employee in Italy has resigned, alleging the tech giant fuels Israel's military actions in Gaza. His farewell email claims Micr...
Qatar introduces new residency rule: What foreign workers need to knowQatar has cut the exit window for foreign workers after residence permit cancellation to just two weeks. Previously, workers had 30 days to...
FIFA 2026: Hotel boom fails to kick off as overseas demand hit by migration rules, ticket prices, airfaresIndian-origin hoteliers in the US report subdued international interest for the football World Cup, citing stricter immigration policies, h...
Fable 5 shock puts sovereign AI back on India’s agendaUS export controls on advanced AI models have spurred India's call for sovereign AI development. Industry leaders warn against reliance on ...
Tourism and hotel sector stocks: Time for a correction in business? Are analysts getting it wrong? 15 stocks from the ecosystemThe Indian hotel and tourism ecosystem has benefitted from the post-Covid travel urge. Occupancies were high, room rates firm, supply is, i...
Oracle to complete 30,000 job cuts by June 15: What's the reason, which team is impacted the most and what Oracle workers could be giving up when they sign severance agreementsOracle layoffs 2026: Oracle is finalizing its largest workforce reduction, with approximately 30,000 employees departing by mid-June. Despi...
Lenskart, Ola’s Q4 scorecards; Visa maze for laid-off techiesLenskart has posted a sharp jump in its March-quarter revenue even as profit dipped marginally. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Sacked H-1B staff asked to do more B-2 paperworkTech giants such as Amazon, Oracle, and Meta have laid off thousands of employees in the past few months, and a large number of the affecte...
Trump wants to make H-1B workers more expensive for US employersA Trump administration proposal would significantly increase H-1B visa minimum salaries, requiring entry-level software engineers in San Fr...
Coinbase layoffs: What is the severance package US' largest crypto exchange will give to Indian employees on work visas?Coinbase is laying off 14% of its global workforce, impacting around 700 employees. The crypto giant cited market conditions and the growin...
Coinbase cuts 14% of staff: Is AI the real reason behind the layoffs?Coinbase is slashing approximately 700 jobs, around 14% of its global staff, as part of a major restructuring. This move aims to cut costs ...
Workers say Korea Inc was warned about questionable U.S. visas before Hyundai raidHundreds of South Korean workers were detained in a U.S. raid on Hyundai’s Georgia battery plant for working on improper visas. Many entere...
Microsoft’s H-1B hiring spree draws criticism amid US job cutsUS labour department filings show that Microsoft has put in 14,181 visa applications in the second quarter of FY2025. Microsoft has consist...
I'm on visa, have limited time: Sacked Indian Microsoft worker in the USHarshita Jhavar, a data and applied scientist at Microsoft, who spent four years in the company in Washington, writes in her LinkedIn post,...
Meta laid off Indian techies within 2-3 days of their joiningAn IT professional Neelima Agarwal, who joined Meta two days back posted on social media platform LinkedIn, that she is among the people wh...
Meta offers immigration support to H-1B visa holders impacted by its lay-offsMeta announced that it is laying off 11,000 employees or 13 per cent of its workforce, with Zuckerberg describing it as "some of the most d...
All you need to know about the H-2B VisaThe H-2B program benefits non-agricultural workers. The US government allows employers to bring in temporary foreign help when they cannot ...
US doubles H-1B visa fee on highly qualified Indian IT professionals to $4,000 from $2,000The move is likely to not go down well with the IT industry, which relies heavily on the visas for transfer of skilled workers to client lo...