Outrage as Oracle makes thousands of foreign-worker requests amid layoff bloodbath
According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data, Oracle filed for roughly 3,126 petitions to employ H-1B workers in fiscal years 2025 and 2026. Employers must submit the paperwork when seeking to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations like technology. Some 436 of those petitions were filed this year alone.
Amazon, which in January said it would axe 16,000 corporate employees, has filed for some 2,675 H-1B petitions during the same two-year fiscal period. That came on top of news in October that the retail giant was axing 14,000 corporate workers.
According to AI search results, there were 245,000 tech layoffs last year. We’re already at 90,000 this year. Someone on TikTok referenced 340,000 layoffs from the government sector as well. But, sure, the unemployment rate is just 4.4%. Something, something, lies, damned lies, and statistics.