#policy

New badge scanners popping up across various offices. Is Truist getting serious about WTO?

Hearing from multiple coworkers in different orgs that the company is moving to an even harder stance on 5 days.

Are they telling out of state workers that are not in michigan to either move to mi or to find other job/ Just heard that happened not sure if true

Wasn’t it great to see the person that represents Verizon to Congress to help offshore jobs, go to Ireland where those American jobs were moved to and celebrate it on LinkedIn? Leadership personified! Exhilarating and exciting indeed. Can’t wait to see what lives and communities they offshore next!

What's the package offered if one fails documented coaching before being put on PIP officially? Is it possible to negotiate/extend the last day of employment on paper?

If we resign during coaching period, is it considered as termination?

Fees changing to 100k. Google lowballs candidates hard so I doubt they will pay this unless the candidate is spectacular.

Wonder how this will effect EnGen and Highmark???

It applies to H‑1B visa applicants who are outside the U.S. seeking new entry or visa issuance. The rule requires that, for an H‑1B petition to be accepted (or, more precisely, for visa issuance / entry to be allowed if one is outside the U.S.), the employer must pay a supplemental fee of $100,000.

For those that haven't been in an office for years, what is the general dress code in the Hub locations?
Is everyone wearing jeans these days?

How do you think the recent announcement requiring $100,000 per year for H1B visas will impact VZ?

Recognizing that existing holders are exempt, what do you think the timing of any impacts will be?

Especially interested to hear from any current H1B or L1 visa holders.

i understand stuff like code or stuff not published. but how about working for a ct with a
support contract that my name would be on?

Your employment with Oracle created obligations on your behalf with respect to certain
confidential, proprietary and trade secret information belonging to Oracle (“Proprietary
Information”) as reflected in the Proprietary Information Agreement (“PIA”) that you signed as
a condition of joining Oracle.
• By signing the PIA, you promised not to use Proprietary Information for any
purpose following your Oracle employment.
• You acknowledge that by signing the PIA, you are prohibited from recruiting Oracle
employees for employment with any employer other than Oracle for a specified
period of time following the termination of your Oracle employment. The
foregoing contractual prohibition will not apply to you if you reside or work in
California or any other jurisdiction that prohibits such a term; however you
understand that this exclusion from the scope of the contractual obligation in this
paragraph does not authorize conduct that is a misappropriation of Proprietary
Information, unfair competition or other wrongful act.
• You acknowledge that, if you signed the PIA on or after June 1, 1996, you are
expressly prohibited, for a specified period of time following the termination of your
employment, for your own account or for the account of any other person or entity,
from soliciting, calling on or providing services similar to those which you provided
to customers or clients of Oracle during your employment, for any of Oracle's
customers or clients or prospective customers or clients if you solicited, called on or
performed services for that Oracle customer or client or prospective customer or
client for a specified period of time preceding your termination. The foregoing
contractual prohibition will not apply to you if you reside or work in California or any
other jurisdiction that prohibits such a term; however you understand that this
exclusion from the scope of the contractual obligation in this paragraph does not
authorize conduct that is a misappropriation of Proprietary Information, unfair
competition or other wrongful act.

Thank you

This is all about getting the Indian govt to get in line about fair trade. Russian oil, tariffs etc. trump is a master at getting the deal done so wait and see. No more playing both sides, either be fair or get left behind

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/white-house-scrambles-clear-h-002724934.html

All current H1b visa holders are safe including the ones who are entering the country with 2025 H1b cycle. The fees doesn't apply to renewals/transfers. It is one time fees per new petition, not an annual fees. The fees is legality is also questionable and will be contested in courts and likely be overturned. Someone asked me yesterday if I knew better than Trump and his cronies about the proclamation...so here is the proof. I knew better!

Enjoy...have a great weekend.

They told us on video this was 100k per year for all the H1B Visa holders, or all 600K. Now its a 1 time fee of 100K for 3 years, its only for non us grads so like only 60K out of the 80K new H1B Visa's. Talk about a walk back, that's like only 1/10th of the original stated headcount. What a let down.

Stand up for yourselves. You are not alone.

https://www.eeoc.gov/federal-sector/filing-formal-complaint

I hope our mm colleagues with a H1-B visa returns to the states before the EOD as"an executive order on Friday requiring US employers to pay a $100,000 application fee for the visa program. The order takes effect on September 21 at 12:01 a.m. ET."

Does this mean if you currently have one and it expires chances are you won't have employment because I doubt mm will pay that price for anyone plus income.

(Sources https://www.businessinsider.com/h1b-visa-trump-executive-order-what-to-know-2025-9)

The president just signed an EO adding a 100K fee to the H1B Visa application, per year. Is that per position or per hiring company? Amazon had 10,000+ of these Visas last year. Does that mean we will see more job openings in tech?

I bumped into someone significant at the recent SAP Signavio event in Austin, Texas. They shared the backstory of the concept known as "Project Mongoose" also known as the plaque removal idea of "firing 1% of employees every year." On February 9, 2025, Elon Musk tweeted about it. He said, "I’d like to propose that the worst 1% of appointed judges, as determined by elected bodies, be fired every year. This will weed out the most corrupt and least competent."

The SAP Board Members are huge fans of Elon Musk. Since then, the SAP Board and top management have been hustling to make this idea a reality for SAP employees. They truly believe that 1% of any organization is filled with corrupt and incompetent people who need to be regularly fired to make the company pure. Since they can't identify who that 1% is, they want to empower the managers at SAP completely. The plan is for managers to get rid of people by giving them poor performance reviews, or if they don’t meet their quotas, those managers will also face the axe. By pitting managers against employees, it becomes easier to keep everyone scared and ensure that no one even thinks about basic work rights, working from home, job security, decent salary increases, and so on.

I’m not fully sold on these origins, but it does seem like a plausible theory. This is great news for employees at SAP Signavio who have a good relationship with their managers. Signavio is well-known for consistently promoting and giving salary increases and MOVE grants to the same employees year after year, while the Works Council refuses to do anything about it.

I am 50+ and facing job search issues like anyone my age in this market after the recent layoffs. The H1b law passing perhaps will stop ageism as new grads wont come cheap as they used to

Please review these threads thoroughly. There is a LOT of corruption, coercion, harassment, stalking and lack of actual patient care at Humana. Every word we speak has to pretty much be a "talking point" and all talking points lead to Humana making profit and certainly not with the patient/members best interest. Nurses will get in trouble for say addressing and educating about a recent heart attack (just as a very small example of the broader issue), yet not offering mail order pharmacy or not scheduling their annual wellness visit during the same call when clearly managing health post heart attack is priority...as well as if we don't address stars...you know, all those stars measures they stopped caring about years ago until what, March of this year?

Written by former board members Charlene Barshefsky, Reed Hundt, James Plummer, David B. Yoffie.

Despite years of troubled performance and failed strategies, the great icon of the semiconductor industry, Intel, has two new major shareholders that can give it new hope for recovery: the United States government, with a bit less than a 10% stake, and the most important design firm in the world, Nvidia, with about 5% ownership.

The next step is for the government to arrange for Intel to go private.

Without the pressure of delivering quarterly earnings for the stockholders of today, a private Intel could divide itself into parts that no longer make sense to be conjoined. One new company should focus on manufacturing chips for all global firms with the goal of matching or exceeding performance levels that only TSMC can provide today. The other should commit to designing chips. These are two separate objective functions, markets, and missions. Ultimately, Intel should also sell its controlling stake in the autonomous driving firm, Mobileye, as well as the company’s venture capital arm. The strategic goal is to disaggregate the conglomerate that may have served Intel well in the past but no longer meets the country’s need for an American foundry nor delivers the most value for shareholders.

It is well understood that most conglomerates suffer from the so-called conglomerate discount. General Electric, once an icon of American industry, recognized that breaking itself up would make its constituent pieces more valuable and competitive in one of the most salient recent examples that demonstrates the sum of the parts can be greater than the whole.

Intel’s business model of vertical integration between design and manufacturing gave Intel tremendous market power when it was the world leader in both markets. That’s the past. Trying to recreate it, as some of Intel’s recent CEOs have done, is doomed.

Here’s the plan that seems right to us, admittedly from the perspective of outsiders who left Intel’s board some time ago.

First, the government, with support from a consortium of America’s world-leading design firms, should buy all of Intel’s public stock. Nvidia’s $5 billion investment and the subsequent surge in Intel’s stock price suggest that the capital markets would welcome such a move. Some combination of Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Google — the best and biggest product design firms on the planet — could easily afford it.

The creation of a successful foundry, drawn from Intel’s manufacturing assets and separated from the design businesses, would be a big win for the Trump administration. It would be even bigger win for the big semiconductor design firms that are otherwise totally dependent on TSMC.

Second, the government and that consortium should find new owners for Intel’s design businesses, including servers and personal computers. Our back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that Intel has left a lot of value locked behind its conglomerate structure. The foundry, for example, has a book value of about $70 billion, but is currently a huge money loser. It needs up to $100 billion in new capital over the next decade to compete with TSMC. The other businesses that could thrive on their own include (1) a microprocessor design business for personal computers, worth somewhere around $100 billion; (2) the design efforts for servers and data centers, also worth potentially $100 billion; (3) the autonomous driving firm, Mobileye, valued at roughly $15. billion; and (4) the extensive venture portfolio, invested in private firms around the world.

Unlocking this value is extraordinarily difficult for a public firm filing quarterly reports. Even in private, the surgery is operationally complicated. Presumably, the board and management cannot see a way forward. Alone, the company cannot raise the money to take the firm private. By itself, it would struggle to obtain the financial, technical and commercial assistance needed to match TSMC. Only the U.S. government would be able to orchestrate the complex, critically important disaggregation of Intel with the necessary participation of the major American design firms.

Third, by going private, Intel can attract the best and brightest talent. With Intel’s competitors flying high on the promise of AI, Intel is suffering from a massive brain drain. As it lays off thousands of employees, the best ones inevitably bail out. The existing public company cannot effectively compete for talent and without talent it is unlikely to succeed in matching TSMC in manufacturing nor make its other units more competitive. Private companies can offer very attractive compensation packages with the promise of a big day when the companies go public again.

The result is that the entire restructuring could be accomplished in roughly a year. That is about as long as the break-up of AT&T took in the 1980s. By 2028, the segments could be sold at handsome prices or taken public with significant returns to private shareholders. Taxpayers could make hundreds of billions of dollars. Not only that, in terms of job creation and national security, the value would be immeasurable.

Naysayers will argue that this strategy is unnecessary. Intel could do it all before, and it can do it all again. But hope is not a strategy, and the world around Intel is not standing still. Naysayers may also argue that Intel should be bought by one of its competitors. Allow Broadcom, for example, to buy Intel and fix it, like it has done with numerous other semiconductor firms. But in today’s environment, an acquisition like this would not fly: China, where Intel sells more than 25% of its products, would never approve it.

Right now, the United States government and Nvidia own a problem. By taking charge of the situation, they can create a tremendous opportunity to do good for the taxpayer. Even more importantly, the break-up of Intel will go a long way to giving the United States the semiconductor ecosystem that underpins every happy scenario for software breakthroughs that benefit the American people and the world.

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-global/h-1b-100k-entry-fee-questions-explained-10261734/

We had planned some diversity-related activities for our group this coming week, but I was informed that we won’t be moving forward, at least not in any official capacity. If we do proceed, it will not be sponsored, and we’ve been explicitly asked not to post about it on social media, as it could be perceived as potentially harmful.

I had understood that while we were scaling back the public promotion of our diversity initiatives, the activities themselves would continue internally. However, it now appears that funding is being pulled and we’re being discouraged from sharing anything externally.

It’s disappointing, to say the least. It feels like we’re stepping back from something that mattered, perhaps out of caution given the current political climate.

Excited to see how state pans out with this one :) they’ve taken advantage of this system for so long and I am so very excited they will need to start paying to back up these poor decisions.

Some forgot to tell him their are other visa which have no limit and keep abused like L1 T1 why those not have hefty fee ?
H1 are just 65000 per year across whole world but L1 is infinite

It looks like El Presidente Donald has increased H1B prices from $4,500 to $100,000 each for companies, curious on how/if this will change TIAA’s outsourcing efforts?

MICROSOFT'S INTERNAL H-1B GUIDANCE JUST LEAKED

Microsoft tells employees:

• If in US: "Remain in the U.S. for the foreseeable future" to "avoid being denied reentry"
• H-4 dependents: Also stay in US (even though proclamation doesn't mention them)
• If abroad: "Strongly recommend you return to the U.S. tomorrow before the deadline"
• Extensions/Status changes: Likely unaffected if you're currently in the US

Microsoft setting up individual tracking for employees outside US and admits "there isn't much time to make sudden travel arrangements"

Translation:

Even Microsoft with unlimited legal resources is telling H-1B workers to avoid international travel entirely.

If Microsoft is this cautious, everyone should be.

T and other companies in US might have a very big impact because of this.

Bye cheap labor! I voted for this

PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS: RESTRICTION ON ENTRY OF CERTAIN NONIMMIGRANT WORKERS

Proclamations

September 19, 2025

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.  The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national security.  Some employers, using practices now widely adopted by entire sectors, have abused the H-1B statute and its regulations to artificially suppress wages, resulting in a disadvantageous labor market for American citizens, while at the same time making it more difficult to attract and retain the highest skilled subset of temporary workers, with the largest impact seen in critical science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. 

     The number of foreign STEM workers in the United States has more than doubled between 2000 and 2019, increasing from 1.2 million to almost 2.5 million, while overall STEM employment has only increased 44.5 percent during that time.  Among computer and math occupations, the foreign share of the workforce grew from 17.7 percent in 2000 to 26.1 percent in 2019.  And the key facilitator for this influx of foreign STEM labor has been the abuse of the H-1B visa. 

     Information technology (IT) firms in particular have prominently manipulated the H-1B system, significantly harming American workers in computer-related fields.  The share of IT workers in the H-1B program grew from 32 percent in Fiscal Year (FY) 2003 to an average of over 65 percent in the last 5 fiscal years.  In addition, some of the most prolific H-1B employers are now consistently IT outsourcing companies.  Using these H 1B-reliant IT outsourcing companies provides significant savings for employers:  one study of tech workers showed a 36 percent discount for H-1B “entry-level” positions as compared to full-time, traditional workers.  To take advantage of artificially low labor costs incentivized by the program, companies close their IT divisions, fire their American staff, and outsource IT jobs to lower-paid foreign workers. 

     Further, the abuse of the H-1B visa program has made it even more challenging for college graduates trying to find IT jobs, allowing employers to hire foreign workers at a significant discount to American workers.  These effects of abuse of H-1B visas have coincided with increasing challenges in the labor market in which H-1B workers serve.  According to a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates in the country at 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively — more than double the unemployment rates of recent biology and art history graduates.  Recent data reveals that unemployment rates among workers in computer occupations jumped from an average of 1.98 percent in 2019 to 3.02 percent in 2025.

     Reports also indicate that many American tech companies have laid off their qualified and highly skilled American workers and simultaneously hired thousands of H-1B workers.  One software company was approved for over 5,000 H-1B workers in FY 2025; around the same time, it announced a series of layoffs totaling more than 15,000 employees.  Another IT firm was approved for nearly 1,700 H-1B workers in FY 2025; it announced it was laying off 2,400 American workers in Oregon in July.  A third company has reduced its workforce by approximately 27,000 American workers since 2022, while being approved for over 25,000 H-1B workers since FY 2022.  A fourth company reportedly eliminated 1,000 jobs in February; it was approved for over 1,100 H-1B workers for FY 2025. 

     American IT workers have reported they were forced to train the foreign workers who were taking their jobs and to sign nondisclosure agreements about this indignity as a condition of receiving any form of severance.  This suggests H-1B visas are not being used to fill occupational shortages or obtain highly skilled workers who are unavailable in the United States.  

     The high numbers of relatively low-wage workers in the H-1B program undercut the integrity of the program and are detrimental to American workers’ wages and labor opportunities, especially at the entry level, in industries where such low-paid H-1B workers are concentrated.  These abuses also prevent American employers in other industries from utilizing the H-1B program in the manner in which it was intended:  to fill jobs for which highly skilled and educated American workers are unavailable. 

     The abuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat.  Domestic law enforcement agencies have identified and investigated H-1B-reliant outsourcing companies for engaging in visa fraud, conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and other illicit activities to encourage foreign workers to come to the United States.

     Further, abuses of the H-1B program present a national security threat by discouraging Americans from pursuing careers in science and technology, risking American leadership in these fields.  A 2017 study showed that wages for American computer scientists would have been 2.6 percent to 5.1 percent higher and employment in computer science for American workers would have been 6.1 percent to 10.8 percent higher in 2001 absent the importation of foreign workers into the computer science field.
 
     It is therefore necessary to impose higher costs on companies seeking to use the H-1B program in order to address the abuse of that program while still permitting companies to hire the best of the best temporary foreign workers. 

     The severe harms that the large-scale abuse of this program has inflicted on our economic and national security demands an immediate response.  I therefore find that the unrestricted entry into the United States of certain foreign workers who are described in section 1 of this proclamation would be detrimental to the interests of the United States because such entry would harm American workers, including by undercutting their wages.

     Accordingly, by the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: 

• Section 1.  Restriction on Entry.  (a)  Pursuant to sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), is restricted, except for those aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $100,000 — subject to the exceptions set forth in subsection (c) of this section.  This restriction shall expire, absent extension, 12 months after the effective date of this proclamation, which shall be 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025. 
       (b)  The Secretary of Homeland Security shall restrict decisions on petitions not accompanied by a $100,000 payment for H-1B specialty occupation workers under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the INA, who are currently outside the United States, for 12 months following the effective date of this proclamation as set forth in subsection (a) of this section.  The Secretary of State shall also issue guidance, as necessary and to the extent permitted by law, to prevent misuse of B visas by alien beneficiaries of approved H-1B petitions that have an employment start date beginning prior to October 1, 2026.
       (c)  The restriction imposed pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall not apply to any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States.

• Sec. 2.  Compliance.  (a)  Employers shall, prior to filing an H-1B petition on behalf of an alien outside the United States, obtain and retain documentation showing that the payment described in section 1 of this proclamation has been made. 
       (b)  The Secretary of State shall verify receipt of payment of the amount described in section 1 of this proclamation during the H-1B visa petition process and shall approve only those visa petitions for which the filing employer has made the payment described in section 1 of this proclamation.
       (c)  The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State shall coordinate to take all necessary and appropriate action to implement this proclamation and to deny entry to the United States to any H-1B nonimmigrant for whom the prospective employer has not made the payment described in section 1 of this proclamation.

• Sec. 3.  Scope and Implementation of Restriction on Entry.  (a)  The restriction on entry pursuant to section 1 of this proclamation shall apply only to aliens who enter or attempt to enter the United States after the effective date of this proclamation as set forth in section 1(a) of this proclamation.
       (b)  No later than 30 days following the completion of the H-1B lottery that immediately follows this proclamation, the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall jointly submit to the President, through the Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor, a recommendation on whether an extension or renewal of the restriction on entry pursuant to section 1 of this proclamation is in the interests of the United States.

• Sec. 4.  Amending the Prevailing Wage Levels.  (a)  The Secretary of Labor shall initiate a rulemaking to revise the prevailing wage levels to levels consistent with the policy goals of this proclamation consistent with section 212(n) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(n).  
  (b)  The Secretary of Homeland Security shall initiate a rulemaking to prioritize the admission as nonimmigrants of high-skilled and high-paid aliens, consistent with sections 101, 212, and 214 of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101, 1182, and 1184.  

• Sec. 5.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
          (i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
          (ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
       (b)  This proclamation shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
       (c)  This proclamation is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

 IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
nineteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fiftieth.
                        DONALD J. TRUMP

For those in US with upcoming visa renewals or transfers, sooner is better before changes to prevailing wages happen.

"Sec. 4. Amending the Prevailing Wage Levels. (a) The Secretary of Labor shall initiate a rulemaking to revise the prevailing wage levels to levels consistent with the policy goals of this proclamation consistent with section 212(n) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(n)..”

Got the word. Our group in Michigan is moving back to 5 days in office. Thought we were going to be good at 3 days. Was nice while it lasted.

Oops Kyndryl! Time to rewrite your Business Plan!

https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-trump-immigration-8d39699d0b2de3d90936f8076357254e

I'm not sure who started this movement within Intel, but it worked. I really did not think that I could make a difference, but I did and we did.

I'm now giving myself a pat on the back for picking up the phone and making a call to my senator. For all those who also reached out to a member of Congress, please also give yourself a pat on the back.

We can make Intel USA Great Again!

Our chips should say 100% designed & manufactured in the USA!

Intel USA!

Let’s discuss what OCC and FRB should be made aware of.

One can only hope the executive order goes into effect and gets fully enforced.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/

Need to get rid of the whole program since there is no longer a shortage of American tech workers.

President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what his administration says is overuse of the program