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https://resources.telegeography.com/how-starlink-conquered-oceania?hs_amp=true

My small USA based team just added 15 seasoned Manila reps (not new hires). Management keeps saying they need development. Is the USA team finished ? Is this a huge red flag? We just went through a reorg where we also changed division.

American Express is reducing its global workforce by 5%. This amounts to approximately 3,840 job losses. The company cited a need for greater agility and efficiency. These changes are intended to accelerate innovation. The layoffs are a direct result of integrating artificial intelligence systems.

New York, New York

https://www.fastcompany.com/91629156/american-express-layoffs-today-amex-slashes-jobs-ai-push

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sneha-panpat-a347ba256_cignahealthcare-recruitment-talentacquisition-share-7519395281977622528-8Yjo/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAWhrEYBSQtp3jPxOg27LUVyoITUvpaooVA

Hiring for entry level positions in India vs Hiring for entry level positions in USA

GM should stop hiring Visas and Hire Locals. there are more qualified locals than importing Indians to abuse the system.

Submit the Tips - https://tips.uscis.gov/
for people who are on VISA here and replacing Locals and who you believe are here using the fake documents and abusing US VISAs.
I know a bunch who confessed using fake degrees to get the US Visa and doing Day 1 CPTs to maintain the US Visa.
I have done my part!
Save USA!

In light of inflation, average 3% ?

Several youth behavioral health organizations are shutting down programs and laying off staff. Comprehensive Life Resources, Newport Healthcare, and Clarvida are collectively impacting four locations and 227 employees. Comprehensive Life Resources' Pearl Youth Residence in Tacoma, Washington, will cease operations on November 21st. Clarvida is closing two Project RENEW sites in Anaheim and Santa Ana, California, on November 1st. Newport Healthcare terminated staff at its St. Cloud, Minnesota, facility on October 1st, though the location remains open.

https://bhbusiness.com/2026/10/02/layoffs-closures-planned-at-newport-healthcare-clarvida-comprehensive-life-resources/

Age Discrimination
Displacing US workers with H1B
Workplace abuse by IDC managers not following US laws
RSU compensation scam
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More troubles....

Know the rules. Report suspected L-1 / L-2 abuse.
L-1 is not a general work visa. It is only for intracompany transfers for specialized roles.

• L-1A / L-1B (the worker): L-1A is for true managers and executives who direct people or an essential function—not “team leads” who mainly do the work themselves. L-1B is for specialized knowledge: special or advanced knowledge of that company’s products, processes, or systems that is not ordinary industry skill. Generic coding, support, QA, or “any open role” does not qualify. Brand-new graduates (“freshers”) almost never do: they lack the required year of qualifying foreign employment and company-specific specialized knowledge.
• L-2 (family): Spouse and unmarried children under 21 of a valid L-1 holder. The spouse can work for any U.S. employer (I-94 coded L-2S). Children cannot work. L-2 status dies if the L-1 status ends.
If a company is parking entry-level or ordinary mid-career staff on L-1/L-2 into ordinary U.S. roles that any similarly skilled worker could do, that is not how the category is written. If you see it, reporting suspected abuse is a lawful public tip.
It can be fully anonymous. Official forms say the more specifics you give, the more useful the tip is.
File here (pick one or both):
• USCIS immigration-benefit fraud/abuse tip form: https://www.uscis.gov/report-fraud/uscis-tip-form
• ICE Homeland Security Investigations tip form: https://www.ice.gov/webform/ice-tip-form
• Phone (U.S./Canada): 1-866-347-2423
• State Department visa-fraud portal: https://travel.state.gov/reportvisafraud
What to put in the form (this is the easy part):
Describe the case in plain language. Include whatever you actually know:
• Company legal name and the plant / office / client site address
• Names and job titles of the people brought in (and managers who arranged it, if known)
• Visa type if you know it (L-1A, L-1B, L-2)
• Why it looks non-qualifying: fresher / recent grad, generic mid-level role, no specialized company knowledge, staffed into “any seat,” etc.
• Dates, headcount if obvious, and any documents or public listings you can safely describe
You do not have to give your name. Do not invent facts. False reports can create legal problems for the reporter; accurate, detailed suspected-fraud tips are what the agencies ask for.
Official sources on eligibility: USCIS L-1 policy (specialized knowledge and managers/executives) and USCIS L-2 dependent rules. Official tip guidance tells filers to include names, addresses, dates of birth, and worksite details when known

What are your views on offshoring roles to "save" $1.5B? While impacting USA economy in the process. And how come no one in US has raised this as a concern. Genuinely confused so here asking the good people of ACI. Lol. Regardless tho, good luck to ACI. Hopefully, they won't have to backtrack like a lot of companies totally relying on AI.

Greetings. The latest 2025 5500 form has just come out. This tells you in general where IBM is headed
So 2025 medical participants for full time and part time workers for the USA = 46,188
The 2024 number = 50,667. So down 4,479 in one year

This equates to 2025 short term disability = 45,240
The 2024 short term disability = 49,586. So again down 4,346 year over year

The net of this is even with IBM buying USA SW companies they are still dropping 4,500 employees per year
REMEMBER this is a one year look back, so 2026 numbers are closing in on 40k USA employees

Sad days for American Citizens!

Will there be a career month in the USA, like India’s ICC Capability Roadshow?

https://www.thetelegraph.com/entertainment/article/for-the-us-news-industry-a-tough-summer-draws-to-22428340.php

Visionary Realms CEO Chris Rowan admitted that recent combat and progression updates for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen did not perform as expected. This led to a restructuring within the development team, resulting in unspecified layoffs. Robert Crane has been rehired as project manager to improve development processes. Rowan takes full responsibility for the management failures that allowed these issues to arise. The company plans to continue work on new zones and core game experiences while promising more open communication and an updated roadmap.

https://massivelyop.com/2026/09/11/pantheon-rise-of-the-fallen-suffers-layoffs-as-it-promises-to-refine-its-develoment-processes/

More than 90 unionized journalists and media workers have been laid off by McClatchy, representing approximately 30% of its unionized staff. These cuts impact 17 publications across the United States, leaving significant gaps in local news coverage. The affected employees include reporters, visual journalists, and editors who have dedicated years to their respective publications. These departures will diminish the ability of communities to receive essential information about local government, education, and other critical issues. The company's decision to reduce its workforce raises concerns about the future of local journalism.

https://newsguild.org/mcclatchy-laid-off-40-of-its-unionized-workers-heres-how-local-coverage-will-suffer/

Have seen several post regarding questions about severance payout. The specifics vary from country to country and the time he made to, but in the US payment is not paid on the normal pay cycle.

Fiserv preaches that they want collaborative work environments and people working together efficiently. That will never be the case when you have H1B visa holders that don't want to train anyone, don't want to knowledge share and hoard work so they can scream how busy they are but won't let any one help them. Leadership should be terminated for allowing this. I know personally directors that know they don't do a check to see if a US citizen can do the job before a visa holder. I think anyone reading this we should all go and report this to the government. This is why this company will fail. It won't stop here, what Fiserv will find themselves with is cr-ppy software and only visa holders there to fix it and they still won't make profit. It's what they deserve. And for you H1B visa holders that do work this way and I know a lot of them, I hope the layoff reaches you so you can go back where you come from and practice your non collaboration in your own country and see how far you get. Allowing these H1B visa holders to speak their language on premise should not be allowed. We live in America why do they get to communicate with each other in their language because they don't want Americans to hear what they have to say especially if it's about knowledge share which they only do with one another. In todays layoffs I would have expected a lot of non citizens to get laid off but nah majority Americans - this company will fail. A lot of Americans had been there for 15 + years, but that doesn't matter to Fiserv. Very Un-American!

This is not the Bank of America. This should be renamed as the Bank of India. Oops, the name is already taken.
H1B fraud, H4 EAD hiring, OPT, EAD, Greencard friends and family, BUT NO Americans.
Every manager and HR should be investigated. They take kickbacks in different forms.
The offices in Texas, New York are filled with a bunch of fraudsters, TCS and Wipro employees.
This is not acceptable.
Report to the government. Stop the fraudsters.

Knowing quiet a large portion of revenue comes from US government contracts, what’s your take on this.

If you honestly think Citi is running a rigged scam by prioritizing H1B/H4/L1/OPT etc. visa holders over US citizens, then cancel all your Citibank accounts and credit cards right now! Sell the stock and cash out all your money.

There is absolutely zero reason to do business with corporate garbage that actively dumps its own citizens.

They may fire hundreds of people in the next few weeks. Citi HR is a scam. Please expose every manager, recruiter who fraudulently hire people and fire hard working Americans.

Seeing various posts on linked in about more UKG layoffs this week, do we know if these are all US layoffs and teams impacted?

No HR meetings on Monday in the USA!

USA will have layoffs again in September.

I think for US employees it is 2 months on payroll + 10weeks of pay + 6 months of insurance. Is that correct?

Already posted on reddit. Posted here for stats.

US. Software

Is Capitalism Failing America?

When the American Promise No Longer Feels Promised

There was a time when America made a remarkably simple promise: work hard, get an education, develop valuable skills, and you could build a good life.

A good job. A steady income. Health insurance. A home. A car. A family. Children. A retirement.

None of these things were guaranteed. But they were attainable—and, for generations, they were a reasonable expectation for someone willing to work hard and play by the rules.

Today, that promise feels increasingly broken.

A person can earn an MBA, a PhD, or multiple advanced degrees. They can spend 25 years developing expertise in a specialized profession, create enormous value for their employers, and still be laid off tomorrow. Experience, loyalty and education are no longer reliable paths to economic security.

That raises an uncomfortable question:

Is capitalism failing America?

I don't believe capitalism itself is the problem.

Capitalism is extraordinarily good at creating wealth. It rewards innovation, entrepreneurship and risk-taking. It gives people the opportunity to build something valuable and be rewarded for it. I have no resentment toward people who become wealthy. If someone builds a great company, creates jobs and generates enormous value, they should benefit from that success.

But somewhere along the way, something has been lost.

The modern corporation can eliminate thousands of employees because doing so improves profitability, and it can be entirely rational from a shareholder's perspective. Employees, meanwhile, can give decades of their lives to a company and discover that their relationship with that company is ultimately transactional.

The employee is told to invest in themselves.

Get educated.

Work hard.

Develop expertise.

Create value.

But the corporation makes no comparable promise in return.

That is a fundamental change in the American economic bargain.

And then there is the extraordinary concentration of wealth at the very top.

I don't begrudge billionaires their success. But there is something profoundly unsettling about a system that can produce individuals with fortunes so enormous that the numbers become almost incomprehensible, while millions of people who work hard every day struggle to afford housing, healthcare, education and retirement.

This isn't about envy.

It is about proportion, fairness and power.

Extreme wealth isn't simply about having a nicer house or a better car. At extraordinary levels, wealth becomes economic and political power. Ownership of enormous amounts of productive capital allows wealth to generate more wealth, often at a rate that someone dependent primarily upon wages can never hope to match.

That creates two very different economic realities.

For the person who owns billions in assets, the economy can work while they sleep.

For the person whose primary asset is their ability to work, losing a job can bring the entire economic engine to a halt.

That disparity doesn't mean wealthy people are evil, nor does it mean they haven't earned much of what they possess. Many have created extraordinary companies and changed the world.

But extreme success is never entirely the product of individual effort. It also depends upon opportunity, timing, education, infrastructure, markets, other people's labor—and, inevitably, some degree of luck.

Perhaps we should be willing to acknowledge that.

The problem isn't that someone has become extraordinarily wealthy.

The problem is that too few people have a realistic opportunity to become financially secure.

That is the distinction that matters.

I don't want to make the wealthy poor.

I don't want to eliminate the incentive to innovate, invest, build companies or take risks.

I don't want equality of outcome.

I want equality of opportunity—and an economic system in which hard work still provides a reasonable path to a secure and dignified life.

A young person who works hard and gets an education should have a realistic chance of buying a home.

A family should be able to survive an unexpected $10,000 expense without financial devastation.

Someone who has spent 25 years developing expertise should not feel that their entire economic security can disappear overnight simply because a corporation needs to improve its quarterly numbers.

And someone who works hard for decades should have a reasonable expectation of retiring with dignity.

Capitalism doesn't need to be destroyed.

It needs to be recalibrated.

The goal should not be to tear down the people who have reached the top.

The goal should be to rebuild the ladder so that everyone else has a realistic opportunity to climb it.

Because capitalism works only when people believe the game is worth playing.

When people believe that hard work, education, innovation and perseverance can lead to a better life, they participate. They build. They invest. They innovate. They believe in the future.

But when people begin to believe that the system is fundamentally stacked in favor of those who already possess the most wealth, they don't simply become frustrated with the economy.

They lose faith in the system itself.

And that may be the greatest threat facing American capitalism today.

Not counting all of the BTC expats in the USA, what is the reduction in US citizen headcount planned for 2027?

Tomorrow is approaching for those in the US, and with whatever you’re hoping to have happen tomorrow, I hope you’re going to be ok. I’m honestly sick to my stomach. We just had our son in April, and as the primary income earner of the house, I’m scared. Working in tech support feels like being a crew member on the Titanic. I’m mid 30s now. Not sure how to support a household and go back to school.

I know a lot of people are indifferent, or just want to it to happen. “Quit if you hate that much” has been mentioned a lot. And I’m definitely angry at the company. I would quit if there wasn’t anyone depending on me. The job market seems uncertain right now. My resumes looks depressing all of a sudden. It’s all exhausting.

Good luck tomorrow. Whatever you’re hoping for. I hope you come out the other side net positive.

I am wondering how our Strong US based even SBA feel about their data being potentially viewed by off-shore folks. To me, this was a big uproar when it came to TikTok. So how can we as PUBLICLY TRADED IN US , allow offshore folks to have access to US Trust account, assets, etc. This is me saying THIS IS WRONG! I hope investors see this.

Has anyone ever leveraged a new offer to get a higher pay? In the US

Reports indicate Oracle is planning another round of job cuts before September 1. Managers have been instructed to identify employees for potential termination. This follows significant layoffs in March, which impacted thousands of workers. The company is focusing on cost control amidst substantial investments in cloud and AI initiatives. The exact number of affected employees remains unconfirmed.

https://www.analyticsinsight.net/news/oracle-layoffs-loom-again-ahead-of-september-1

Redwood City, California

Private equity only works because the United States dollar is no longer linked to gold.

Now, when the United States needs more money they can simply print it out of thin air. It doesn't have to be linked to a physical asset like gold.

This means our economy runs on high debt, high inflation, and an ever expanding economy built on a hollow stack of cards.

This allows private equity to skyrocket since their business model works because inflation always goes up in service of their debt.

Inflation always reduces the real value of your debt.

Every retail in the US seems to have inconsistent stock. Canada gets new beyblades sooner than US, how is that even possible? Why doesn't your marketing team do a better job at advertising the brand and letting know the beyblade community when the new releases are hitting the street? Can't be that hard, right?

Note to recruiting staff: Start your batch process at a reasonable US hour. Getting a rejection email at 3am is a horrible candidate experience.

I've watched leadership celebrate American values publicly while overseeing the outsourcing of thousands of American jobs.

Recently, our CEO said, I am proud to be an American because this country was founded on the principle that ordinary people could do extraordinary things.

That's a difficult message to reconcile with what many employees are experiencing.

Employees are being laid off. Others are being required to train the people who will replace them through offshore outsourcing. Additional reductions continue while employees are told not to worry. Many positions are being transitioned to third-party providers, leaving employees with uncertainty about their future.

The real tragedy isn't just the impact on employees. It's the loss of decades of institutional knowledge and specialized expertise that cannot simply be transferred in a few weeks of training. Leadership appears to believe these roles are interchangeable. Those of us who actually perform the work know they are not.

The result will likely be slower delivery, lower service quality, frustrated customers, and the eventual realization that some highly specialized functions cannot simply be moved halfway around the world without consequences.

Cost cutting is one thing. Every company has to make difficult business decisions. But there is a difference between making hard decisions and pretending they have no human or operational cost. It makes even less sense when the broad brush of reductions and outsourcing are applied to business units that are highly profitable and growing.

If you're going to publicly champion what it means to be an American company, your actions toward your American workforce should reflect those values.

Only Americans will be laid off. H1B and other visa types are a legal obligation, and are expensive to hire, rehire and layoff. So, it is better to be as a H1B employee. You will not be touched and if you have a same caste manager, you have super powers.