“Just one month later, Pichai’s firm filed applications for low-paid foreign workers to come to America and take highly specialized tech jobs.”
Sundar Pichai laid off 12,000 people in January and blamed “economic reality.” A month later Google was filing H-1B applications for software engineers, analytical consultants and UX researchers. Meta, Amazon, Zoom, Salesforce, Microsoft and Palantir show up in the same Labor Department data. The economic reality was that cheaper workers were available.