That’s not really how it works. It’s hard to be fine-grained when firing 12k people. It’s operational much easier to do the layoff and then fix the gaps.
“Too hard” to sorting hat a subset of 12k employees into other roles and slash and burn instead? You shouldn’t get H1B quota.
We are coming up on an election cycle after all.
> but there is no logical or legal reason to do so.
Edit: throttled, can’t reply @bubblethink that is what the law and legislation is for, helping corporations along when their actions are too efficient for society’s liking. I expect regulation to catch up to their labor practices.
For all but highly specialized sub-fields, it is really hard to convince me H1B's are necessary - other than to artificially suppress wages for citizens.
Its a good thing that Google is a AI first company. It can use AI to do such fine grained search.
This is not an ok way to think about it and certainly not something we should accept, let alone justify as a viable business practice
Doing a lot of the wrong thing doesn’t absolve you from responsibility that you have to each individual.