Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by product50 on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:42PM
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Google files 6.5k H1-B applications per yr which includes transfers (https://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2019-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.asp...). To assume all of this goes to new employees is misleading since Google has attrition too. So assuming 10% attrition, Google needs to fill in that 10% and add more employees. Your argument conveniently assumes that H1s are only going to net new employees vs. those that fill the gap too.
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Re:Twitter Will Allow Employees to Work at Home Forever
by acituan on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:30PM
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> Your argument conveniently assumes that H1s are only going to net new employees vs. those that fill the gap too.
I also conveniently assumed that global 40k headcount increase was sufficiently representative of the US headcount increase, even though it inflates the denominator. It's the nature of back-of-the-envelope calculations to be convenient.