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Tech Works: Layoffs, a Ticking Time Bomb for Your H-1B Visa

Editor’s note: Today marks the launch of Tech Works, a new https://thenewstack.io/tech-works-how-can-we-break-our-obsession-with-meetings/ by longtime New Stack contributor https://thenewstack.io/author/jennifer-riggins/ that will explore workplace conditions, management ideas, career development and the tech job market as it affects the people who build and run the software the world relies on. One of the most popular pieces of advice for those facinghttps://thenewstack.io/fear-and-layoffs-how-to-cope-with-techs-uncertain-times/ is just to take a break.

And it’s not really 60 days, since it takes your new company’s lawyers a few weeks to process the visa application. Let’s not even talk about visa holders whose jobs got cut right before the holidays.

For companies that want to do right by their visa-holding employees, it’s ideal to keep people on payroll as long as possible.