Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
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Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
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Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#2I personally think that doing a layoff of more than 2% of your workforce or 1000 people, whichever is high, should restrict you from filing for a work visa for a period of 3 years.
Or you can buy your way out of that restriction by paying each laid off worker 3 years of wages.
Pick one.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#3Oracle is a large company. Many of those laid off were outside the US. This is a non-story.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#4Don't worry, Trump is in Ellison's pocket so this will go through.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#5H1B is generally a giant scam of Labor Arbitrage
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#6I would expect further H1B crackdowns coming. The $100k fee was just the start.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#7I hate Oracle as much as the next guy, but this seems like a nothingburger.
Oracle didn’t file “thousands of H1Bs”. Oracle filed 2690 applications in FY2025 (Oct-Sep), and so far filed 436 in FY2026, according to the article.
If anything, this would indicate that Oracle slowed down on hiring foreign workforce. Oct-Mar is half of Oracle’s fiscal year, but they only filed 16% of the H1B applications as in 2025? That seems in line with a hiring freeze and subsequent layoff.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#8Wherever their major offices are look for newspapers in the small towns nearby advertising for "Software developers for Oracle" all written in the tiniest print, right next to classified that sell used bikes, car parts and other stuff.
- "Well, Uncle Sam, we looked so hard in US and nobody answered our job posts, we have to go to ... $othercountry to hire, there is no other way"
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#9They have many departments, and are probably reducing some of them while increasing the workforce in others. The idea that they hire 'those damn foreigners' to push down wages is probably true to some degree, but not the whole story. I also don't believe the majority of these H1B are directly hired in other countries for which there is now a $100k fee, but rather people who studied in the US under F1 visa who are exempt from this rule.
Re: Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs
#10This whole H1B debacle tells me that people don't like it when employees are not fungible but this sentiment only exists selectively.
The H1B i140 petition thing requires you to advertise the job before submitting the petition. How does this work if the employee is not fungible?