Thread regarding Comcast layoffs

@d9 H1b is not the problem here…everyone saying h1b is cheaper…i can say h1b is paid same as American citizens…if the work goes to chennai then it is cheaper…in comcast less than 2% is h1b employees and everyone here saying h1b is taking the jobs…do strict rules for h1b and allow only qualified peoples and citizens needs to have a mindset to relocate anywhere inside usa if they loose a job…people in h1b always has a mindset to relocate anywhere inside us to find a job or else they will loose the h1b status but most of the citizens are not willing to relocate for a job and that is the reason companies going for h1b candidates…

H1b should be be suspended while the job market is in such a bad shape, that said, the restructuring writ large is due to a dying business

@a5 The point is they are going for cheaper workforce because they want to continue to rake in all the wealth. H1-B should not occur for this purpose. I'm pure blue! and if you want to stop this start voting blue. Regulations were put in place for a reason, just read your history. We have allowed the greed to take over our politics and society again!

@ce Agree!

And half of yall will see this, bi--h and complain, and still vote for some capitalist racist shill instead of a progressive that would actually take care of the citizens

@ad stopped vs. renewing are two different things. There are an estimated 600 to 950 active H-1B visa holders currently on Comcast’s payroll. Apparently, no American could fill these tech, finance, AI. Engineering and cybersecurity positions in the US…….they have shifted to offshoring to work around this as seen in the amount of people being hired in Chennai. Many businesses from the US decided it would be neat to put AI, cybersecurity and much more in the hands of another country. Employees are training them. Take a look at old posts about this because they tell you exactly what this has done to morale and business. The issues are widely overlooked.

They’re not sponsoring H1b anymore because they found an even cheaper route which is send the job to Chennai and pay some incompetent id--t $14 an hour. All the execs care about is the balance sheet. They broke the social contract long ago. Ralph is probably rolling in his grave.

“ A cohort of 300 engineers—making up 0.2% of the company—didn't cause this restructuring. Blame leadership's cost-cutting strategy if you want, but stop using your own coworkers as scapegoats.”

CIEC are not our coworkers. They’re low cost, incompetent scabs who replaced our American counterparts.

I can tell most of you defending offshoring and h1b are the benefactors of these strategies, given the AI use, inability to formulate your own thoughts, and basic English grammar errors.

This doesn't add up. Please fact-check the actual public filings before reacting to rumors.
​Really sorry for everyone impacted by these cuts.

@ae who said the OP was laid off and is being replaced by the offshore team? 🤷‍♂️

@a4

It's TREASON.

It’s definitely worse they laid you off after training the offshore team.

@OP This is completely wrong…comcast stopped hiring new h1b from 2024…lots of misinformation spreading in internet

@a5 Tell that to an American Engineer who trained offshore talent and then they took over his job responsibilities. Happened to me a year ago at Comcast. Happy it did though as I decided to retire early, in my 50's. Tired of all the nonsense.

@a8 Bravo , very well explained with facts

@a4 start with asking this question to your congress person, if they want they can change the laws. I am afraid their tech overlords may not allow them to.

@a7 yes, I would like to see our (largely American) C suite explain why 9 out of every 10 new engineering roles are going to Chennai. I also wasn't aware that being H1B gave people immunity from layoff.

Newsflash: capitalists will ALWAYS replace you with cheaper labor, and count on mouthbreathers like you to blame immigrants instead of the actual culprit. USA #1 BABY!

Let’s run the actual math on this before pointing fingers. Blaming H-1Bs for this layoff doesn’t add up.
Look at the official public USCIS/DOL data for Comcast Cable Communications:

• 2026 total approvals: 307 (only 28 of those are new lottery approvals, the rest are just standard renewals)
• 2022 total filings: 679
• 2026 total filings: 312
  Filings are down over 50% since 2022, not up 270%.
  Now compare that to the rumored cuts:
• If the rumor of 20,000 to 30,000 layoffs is true, 307 people account for barely 1% of that headcount.
• Even if leadership fired every single direct H-1B worker tomorrow, 99% of these layoffs would still happen.
  A few other facts to clear up:
• You legally cannot "source" an H-1B through a third party. An H-1B belongs to the petitioning company. Hiring an outside consulting vendor (Wipro, Infosys, Accenture, etc.) is a standard vendor contract—those are not Comcast H-1Bs.
• Go look at Comcast’s internal and external job boards right now. Practically every single technical opening explicitly says: "No visa sponsorship provided."
• When restructuring hits engineering orgs, visa holders get cut under the exact same mandates as domestic staff.
  These cuts are about subscriber churn, cord-cutting, and balance sheet targets set by executive leadership. A cohort of 300 engineers—making up 0.2% of the company—didn't cause this restructuring. Blame leadership's cost-cutting strategy if you want, but stop using your own coworkers as scapegoats.

@a5 Sure. Explain that to every American employee laid off in this round… that their jobs are being eliminated while H-1B workers and offshore employees keep theirs and take over the work those Americans were doing. Tell me again how this is about efficiency and not simply replacing American workers with cheaper labor.

Tell all of us here why you think they’re more important than the citizens and workers of this country.

It is understandable that restructuring and layoffs cause immense anxiety and frustration, but spreading misleading data and xenophobic talking points does not help anyone facing job uncertainty. Before circulating rumors, it is critical to look at the actual public regulatory data and understand how visa rules legally work.

1. Fact-checking the numbers against public filings
   According to public Department of Labor and USCIS records (which can be verified on tracking databases like MyVisaJobs under Comcast Cable Communications), direct H-1B filings have declined sharply, not skyrocketed. Actual I-129 approvals for full-time direct employees represent only a few hundred positions across an enterprise of tens of thousands of workers—well under 1% of the total U.S. workforce. Claiming a sudden hundreds-percent surge in sponsored direct hires does not align with verified DOL Labor Condition Applications (LCAs) or USCIS petition volumes.
2. How H-1B sponsorship and consulting actually work
   An employer cannot legally "source people from a third-party H-1B sponsor" and claim them as their own H-1B filings. By federal regulation:
   • An H-1B visa is employer-specific. Either Comcast sponsors an individual directly, or an independent vendor/consulting firm employs and sponsors them.
   • Contracting standard enterprise IT consulting vendors is an entirely different operational category than direct corporate sponsorship. Conflating vendor staffing contracts with company-sponsored H-1Bs misrepresents how corporate restructuring operates.
   • Furthermore, a simple check of Comcast’s official careers portal reveals that almost every open technical role explicitly states no visa sponsorship is offered.
3. Layoffs impact everyone across the board
   Layoffs during corporate restructuring are driven by executive balance-sheet decisions, margin pressures, and macro shifts—not foreign employees on visas. In reality, when cuts hit tech and engineering organizations, visa holders are laid off under the exact same corporate directives as domestic staff, with the added burden of a strict 60-day legal clock to find new sponsorship or uproot their lives and leave the country.
   Protecting domestic American jobs is an understandable priority, but directing blame at colleagues who are legally working, paying taxes, and contributing to the teams they work on is misplaced. Critique executive strategy and corporate labor models if you wish, but get the facts right before scapegoating fellow workers.

@a4 dey took er jerbs!!!

If you're blaming H1-Bs because an American billionaire cut your job you might be re--rded.

The amount of h1b employees should be ZERO while Americans are laid off. H1b’s should be the first to be laid off.

Offshoring should be taxed significantly.

In case you haven’t noticed yet, they’re literally here to take your jobs. Whether h1b or offshoring, these foreign workers do not care about you or your livelihood. They’re happy with indentured servitude. All those worker rights Americans fought for over 60 years? The board is happy to give your livelihood to foreigners so long as they don’t have to afford YOU those rights.

Everyone should be doing everything in their power to put a stop to this practice. Stop assisting them in moving your job to the CIEC.