Career advice, platform updates, and commentary on the American job market.
A practical breakdown of the 60-day H-1B grace period after a layoff — what it actually covers, what your employer owes you, and why this system leaves visa holders at the mercy of their sponsor even after they've been cut loose.
Microsoft laid off 1,600 Xbox employees while remaining the sixth-largest H-1B sponsor in the country, and lawmakers on both sides are finally asking why.
AI-linked layoffs have already hit 205,000 American workers in 2026 — matching all of last year in eight months.
Company-by-company H-1B filing data shows Google, Apple and Microsoft hiring nearly as many new H-1B workers as they laid off American employees over the same stretch — a pattern that undercuts the industry's talent-shortage narrative.
New Challenger data shows 108,435 announced job cuts in January 2026, the worst January for layoffs since the Great Recession, while planned hiring hit the lowest level for that month since tracking began — a market one economist bluntly called "slim pickings."
Oracle's sweeping 2026 restructuring cut roughly 30,000 jobs worldwide, but for the H-1B holders among them the layoff came bundled with a 60-day deadline to find new sponsorship or leave the country.
Cloudflare, Amazon, and Oracle are cutting thousands of jobs while posting record revenue, calling it restructuring for the agentic AI era rather than cost-cutting - a euphemism worth pushing back on.