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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 12:14 AM Nov 2012

10% of Microsoft's U.S. workforce is H-1Bs, and they want more

Source: Seattle Times

Microsoft is so eager to find qualified engineers and programmers for its thousands of vacancies that it has offered to pay a bounty to the government in exchange for extra visas in order to import more foreign workers.

... Microsoft's proposal has sparked concerns — both old and new — about the visa program that has allowed companies to recruit hundreds of thousands of well-educated foreign nationals to fill U.S. jobs.

... Microsoft is among the nation's heaviest corporate users of H-1B visas, accounting for 10 percent of its U.S. workforce of 57,400. The company said it applied for an average of 850 visas each year between 2010 and 2011 for new employees on their first H-1B visa.

... And though the vast majority of Microsoft's visa workers held technical jobs, some were hired as a public relations manager, paralegal or graphic designer, the green-card data show.

Read more: http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019758596_microsoftvisa25m.html

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10% of Microsoft's U.S. workforce is H-1Bs, and they want more (Original Post) Newsjock Nov 2012 OP
surprise, surprise hollysmom Nov 2012 #1
Why not write into the law that every perosn here on an H1 visa gets paid double the median wage robinlynne Nov 2012 #2
I like your thinking! Systematic Chaos Nov 2012 #4
not just microsoft dembotoz Nov 2012 #3

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
1. surprise, surprise
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 12:17 AM
Nov 2012

I watched the use of H1B visas for cheap workers grow since the 70's when they used to get them from England.

ETA in the 70's it was student visas, the people were brought over as "students"

robinlynne

(15,481 posts)
2. Why not write into the law that every perosn here on an H1 visa gets paid double the median wage
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 12:21 AM
Nov 2012

for that profession. I mean since it is important enough to bring someone from out of the country, obviously the position is worth double pay, right? Remember there are no Americans qualified to do this job. This is the only person who can do this job. That is what the visa application says.
poof. the visas will go away.

dembotoz

(16,740 posts)
3. not just microsoft
Mon Nov 26, 2012, 12:26 AM
Nov 2012

i work in telecom and it seems that when i am on a webinar or a conference call or working with higher than street level tech support, i do not hear that many western sounding names anymore.

this is not meant to be a complaint. It is an observation.

bright bright people

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