Microsoft Refutes Notion That Foreign-Worker Visas Were Behind Mass Xbox Layoffs
Microsoft communications lead Frank X. Shaw refuted claims that foreign-worker visas were the cause of recent mass layoffs affecting 1,600 people at Xbox. Shaw stated the workforce changes were due to a necessary business restructure, not to replace employees with foreign workers, and that H-1B visa holders represent a small percentage of the overall workforce and were not specific to Xbox.
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- Entities
- Company Restructuring
- id Software
- Microsoft
- Ninja Theory
- DOOM: The Dark Ages
- Layoffs
- Compulsion Games
- Activision Blizzard
- DoubleFine
- Undead Labs
- Xbox
- Arkane Studios
- Frank X. Shaw
- H-1B Visas
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