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Stories about: H-1B

Microsoft: Immigrant Workers Have Huge Contribution Microsoft is crediting foreign employees working with the company as having a huge contribution compared to native workers. Brad Smith, Microsoft general counsel, expressed the Redmond company's continuous support and commitment to hiring non-US citizens via H-1B visas to fill in roles for which there is a short... 1 April 2009 11:00 GMT Microsoft: No Change in the Proportion of H-1B Employees Following Layoffs Having missed revenue estimates by $900 million in the second fiscal quarter of 2009, Microsoft announced a series of cost-reduction measures, beginning with laying off a total of 5,000 employees over the course of the next 18 months. 1,400 jobs were cut in January 2009 alone and, as a direct consequence, the Redmond... 4 March 2009 06:33 GMT Microsoft in Desperate Need of Fresh-Blood Transfusions Microsoft is in desperate need of fresh-blood transfusions, with a strong focus on foreign-bred resources. In the United States, employers must obtain H-1B visas for foreign workers, but according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the limited number of visas means that companies cannot hire all the high-skilled tale... 31 March 2008 05:54 GMT