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reliabilityguy · 2026-01-28T22:07:41 1769638061

Can you explain in more details how changing h1b rules leads to layoffs?

rvz · 2026-01-29T03:03:01 1769655781

It's actually both.

   1. Ramp up offshore hiring and relocate jobs in low-cost-of-living (LCOL) countries (India) to avoid paying the 100K H1-B visa charge.

   2. Train their AI and robotics by researchers in  LCOL countries (to eventually replace the high-cost-of-living (HCOL) warehouse labor workforce)

   3. Deploy robots and AI agents to then layoff more people in HCOL environments and repeat (1) until their margins improve and they achieve AGI.

It's not that hard to see.

not_jassy · 2026-01-29T02:59:42 1769655582

I'll take a stab:

Higher cost h1b employees incentives offshoring where average employee cost is reduced.

Less h1b employees incentives offshoring.

Offshoring.

33MHz-i486 · 2026-01-29T02:54:03 1769655243

except they planned the January layoff in October or even earlier over the summer.