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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by toomuchtodo on Monday September 16, 2024 @02:32PM (#41559049)
Look at their H1B visa data and hiring in India (at least with regards to corp jobs, not US warehouse workers). They absolutely could find these folks in the US who don't need sponsorship.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=amazon

> Amazon H1B Salary 2024

> 5848 records found; Median Salary is $144800. 7 percents of the salary are above $200K, 38 percents of the salary are between $150K and $200K, 43 percents of the salary are between $100K and $150K, 11 percents of the salary are less than $100k

Is this H1B visa fraud? Good question for USCIS and Congress. How Amazon feels about worker rights and regulation, as well as regulation as a whole, is a bit of a known quantity at this point.

https://www.uscis.gov/scams-fraud-and-misconduct/report-frau...

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by apwell23 on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:27PM (#41560443)
If they hire from india on h1b they are almost guaranteed that person wouldn't be able to leave for amazon for a very long time if they apply for a perm process.

They are getting that retention premium that won't be possible if they hire locally.

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Re:Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week by TeaBrain on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @01:36PM (#41570353)
Which is the reason for the h1b fraud, but this also begs the question of why amazon has been able to get away with this strategy for so long.
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