I’m an executive for a somewhat well known US company. Yes it is true we replace our workers with fresh H1-B workers but it’s not how you’d expect.
We will have yearly mass layoffs in many forms. We try to keep a lid on it, but usually it’s around the first quarter. We will put many thousands on performance focus, then just lay them off for performance if they don’t see the writing on the wall. If we don’t eliminate at least 5% of workers, we will then do a public layoff.
By April, we have a list of H1-B candidates. We do not hire from the US. We have to post listings to show we don’t discriminate, but we mostly ghost US candidates. For really strong candidates, we interview with the explicit goal to eliminate them. We already have H1-B candidates lined up willing to work for 30% less than the worker we eliminated.
Then we import them in October.
We have repeates this process for the last 10 years. Our company went from Indian minority to Indian majority in just 5. The goal is to eliminate all US workers. We will save money this way.
The only time we had trouble was 2020 during covid. We lost many workers that had to go home. And we had a hard time spinning back up when lockdowns lifted, so we were forced to hire US workers. This caused wages to surge the company became 50/50 Indian & Asian to US worker ratio.
2023 we got back on track with the plan. We have already done 5 waves of layoffs. We have 5,000+ approved H1B coming this October ready to replenish those we laid off this quarter.
Our stock goes up, that’s all that matters. An important thing we must do is to keep these US workers from joining our competitors. So we gave them severance for many months. This should keep them out of the market for a while so we can get our footing again. But they will not be hireable after severance runs out. They will be rusty and not interview well, and they look like low performers.
Just wanted to get that out there. Lol! Its true. We are replacing you. India wins. It is reverse colonization, justice served.
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