https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/microsoft-layoffs-xbox-gaming-rcna353019 As of 2024, Microsoft was the 6th largest H-1B sponsor and the 4th largest user of H-1Bs among American companies. They have tens of thousands of H-1B applications in process. No company that initiates mass layoffs, for any reason, should be allowed to retain H-1B employees. Total failure of legislation and policy to allow this. 3200 from the XBox division, 1600 from other divisions. Is being a white-collar worker in the West just a perpetual humiliation ritual cycle at this point? Nightmarish to actually search for a job and go through the interview process, shit pay, boss lays you off every 2 years after some peabrained executive decision to go balls deep on a new trend that obviously isn't going to last.