Oracle filed for roughly 3,126 petitions to employ H-1B workers in fiscal years 2025/26

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The first three months of 2026 saw 52,050 tech layoffs — a 40% jump from the same period last year, executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said in a report published Thursday, with artificial intelligence increasingly being blamed for the cuts

Amazon, which in January said it would axe 16,000 corporate employees, has filed for some 2,675 H-1B petitions during the same two-year fiscal period. That came on top of news in October that the retail giant was axing 14,000 corporate workers.

One user on the app Blind, an anonymous forum for verified employees, called the H-1B petitions a “slap in our face.”

“If this doesn’t make you angry, maybe you need to read some heartfelt posts on LinkedIn from Oracle employees who are US citizens and have been laid off after working at Oracle for years,” the user wrote.

Another commenter posted on the site: “Look at all big tech companies, they do massive layoffs then rehire at lower salary.”

A third added: “Transnational corporations are disloyal to the American state and the nation.”

"If you are not willing to work 70 hours a week with no time off, without any complaint, and live 10 to house, then you will get undercut by foreign labor."

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