Xiao Wang
Role at the time: Co-founder and CEO of Boundless Immigration
Challenged the characterization
Statement summary
Wang challenges the inference that Microsoft's layoffs and foreign-worker hiring represent one-for-one replacements, pointing to different jobs and divisions.
“Layoffs and hiring are not one for ones of each other, especially at giant companies like Microsoft”
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GeekWire interviews immigration technology executives about the Microsoft allegations. Xiao Wang argues that layoffs and hiring in different divisions cannot be equated.
Why we used this label
He disputes the characterization of layoffs and recruitment as interchangeable evidence of replacement hiring.