Microsoft's Gellos said that such it recognizes the impact on all workers who lose their jobs, not just foreign guest workers.
«For many of the employees here on a visa, being laid off means that they have to leave the country on very short notice, in many cases uprooting families and children … We care about all our employees, so we are providing services and support to try to help every affected worker, whether they are US workers or foreign nationals working in this country on a visa,» Gellos statement continued.
One analyst says that layoffs are rarely simple. In hiring, companies like Microsoft have been forced to look around the globe for qualified tech workers, partly because U.S. universities are not turning out enough new graduates in necessary fields to fill business' needs.
«It's not like a traditional layoff where you're cutting people across the board,» Matt Rosoff, analyst at Directions on Microsoft, told InternetNews.com.
In fact, the layoffs are coming from targeted groups within Microsoft. Additionally, both the size of the layoffs and the size of Microsoft tend to put the issue in perspective.
«It's a pretty small number [of layoffs] so I don't think that [Grassley's request] makes much sense,» Rosoff added.
Rumors of layoffs began swirling around Microsoft and several gossip news sites near the end of last year, with some guesstimates of cuts running as high as 15,000 workers out of Microsoft's 94,000, or nearly 17 percent.
Luckily, for Microsoft employees anyway, the company initially announced layoffs of around 1,400 workers and a total of up to 5,000 over the next year and a half. However, CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts last week that the company will continue to hire in areas where it needs workers, so overall net job losses will be closer to 2,000 to 3,000 over that time.
«I'm sure they'll look at what the law requires and that's exactly what they'll do,» Rosoff said.
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