{"id":29963,"date":"2026-07-11T06:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=29963"},"modified":"2026-07-11T06:16:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:16:24","slug":"microsoft-responds-to-racist-xbox-layoff-conspiracy-concept-says-ceo-asha-sharma-is-american-born-raised-and-educated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=29963","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft responds to racist Xbox layoff conspiracy concept, says CEO Asha Sharma is &#8216;American born, raised, and educated&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p id=\"elk-3147d0c2-7c9d-11f1-a164-2fb16ef637e1\">I&#8217;ve seen a variety of complaints and issues in regards to the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/the-games-industry-reacts-to-xbox-layoffs-we-are-clearly-at-a-turning-point\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/the-games-industry-reacts-to-xbox-layoffs-we-are-clearly-at-a-turning-point\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/the-games-industry-reacts-to-xbox-layoffs-we-are-clearly-at-a-turning-point\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">layoffs at Xbox<\/a> that put 3,200 folks out of labor and resulted within the spinoff of 4 studios\u2014finally 5, as soon as the Arkane state of affairs is sorted. One I have not run throughout is a declare that it is all a part of an effort to take jobs away from People and exchange them with non-People on H-1B visas. That modified at the moment, although, when Microsoft chief communications officer Frank X. Shaw took to social media to disclaim the declare.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations are apparently rooted in tales like this one from <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fury-erupts-us-brand-fires-1600-employees-after-securing-thousands-foreign-worker-visas\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/fury-erupts-us-brand-fires-1600-employees-after-securing-thousands-foreign-worker-visas\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Information<\/a>, with the headline, &#8220;Fury erupts as US model fires 1,600 staff after securing 1000&#8217;s of international employee visas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-root\"\/>\n<p id=\"elk-3147d0c2-7c9d-11f1-a164-2fb16ef637e1-2\">Fox famous that Microsoft is shedding roughly 4,800 staff in complete, the majority of them from Xbox, whereas on the similar time buying authorization &#8220;to rent from international international locations 2,273 employer-sponsored, non-immigrant staff beneath what is named the H-1B visa program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"my-6 w-full overflow-hidden rounded-[10px] lg:my-8\" data-component-name=\"JwPlayer:Carousel\" data-jwp-carousel=\"\" data-jwp-carousel-payload=\"{&quot;ids&quot;:{&quot;playerID&quot;:&quot;xRndq6xb&quot;,&quot;searchPlaylistID&quot;:&quot;4Ea1NHIL&quot;,&quot;divID&quot;:&quot;botr_4Ea1NHIL_xRndq6xb_div&quot;,&quot;fallbackPlaylistID&quot;:&quot;egqep2zS&quot;,&quot;fallbackDivID&quot;:&quot;botr_egqep2zS_xRndq6xb_div&quot;,&quot;key&quot;:&quot;IMcDEqsezRep6Vlov8S+D5R7vfE9eQDsizft09U7euHVCtiE&quot;,&quot;tintLogo&quot;:false,&quot;useSearchPlaylist&quot;:false,&quot;enabled&quot;:true},&quot;signPostingEnabled&quot;:true,&quot;signPostingLinkEnabled&quot;:true,&quot;waitForAdLoad&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnDesktop&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnMobile&quot;:false,&quot;hidePlayerOnTablet&quot;:false}\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-nowrap items-center justify-between gap-3 bg-zinc-900 px-[14px] py-3\" data-jwp-carousel-header=\"\">\n<div class=\"flex min-w-0 shrink items-center\"><span class=\"inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm font-article-heading capitalize leading-5 text-white whitespace-nowrap\"><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-mobile\"\/><span class=\"jwp-carousel-title-desktop\">Newest Movies From<\/span><span class=\"jwp-carousel-brand inline-flex items-center\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/media\/shared\/img\/logos\/white\/pcgamer.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"block h-[18px] w-auto shrink-0 brightness-0 invert\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aspect-video w-full min-h-[200px] lg:min-h-[330px] relative overflow-hidden bg-black\" data-jwp-carousel-container=\"\">\n<div class=\"absolute inset-0 size-full items-center justify-center bg-white\" data-jwp-carousel-fallback=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/media\/img\/pcgamer_logo.svg\" alt=\"\" class=\"max-h-12 w-auto\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Quoting a collection of random folks on X, the report states that &#8220;livid on-line critics declare that American jobs are being unfairly handed to foreigners,&#8221; including that &#8220;some on-line critics [have] claimed Sharma&#8217;s Indian heritage performed a task in firing the People, given the share of H-1B staff from India.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The H-1B is a non-immigrant visa that enables US enterprise to rent international staff to fill sure speciality occupations. Criticism of this system and its affect on US staff has waxed and waned over time, however it&#8217;s taken on specific prominence through the second Trump administration: Earlier this yr, Trump tried to impose a $100,000 software payment for H-1B visas, though that was finally <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-is-unlawful-us-judge-rules-2026-06-08\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-is-unlawful-us-judge-rules-2026-06-08\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"noopener\">overturned by courts<\/a>. The Republican get together continues to lean into it as a wedge subject, nevertheless: Vice President JD Vance, as an example, mentioned throughout a latest speech that &#8220;American jobs should go to American staff and never <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5959880-vance-h1b-visa-fraud-wisconsin-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5959880-vance-h1b-visa-fraud-wisconsin-speech\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" rel=\"noopener\">international fraudsters<\/a>, and the Division of Labor is preventing again in opposition to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-2 pb-0 mb-4\">\n        <span class=\"&#10;            flex&#10;            after:content-[''] after:flex-1 after:ml-4 after:my-[0.7rem] after:border-t after:border-solid after:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            before:content-[''] before:flex-1 before:mr-4 before:my-[0.7rem] before:border-t before:border-solid before:border-t-[#ccc]&#10;            font-article-heading pb-0 text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,1em)] uppercase sm:text-[length:var(--article-river-title--font-size,0.875em)] font-bold&#10;        \"><br \/>\n            It&#8217;s possible you&#8217;ll like<br \/>\n        <\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It is the kind of rhetoric that may result in unhealthy locations, and the accusations of H-1B visa abuse, accompanied by loads of bare racism, has spawned numerous posts, re-posts, and likes, significantly on X\u2014sufficient to immediate Shaw to talk out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Numerous unhealthy data on the market\u2014let&#8217;s clear it up,&#8221; Shaw wrote in his <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fxshaw\/status\/2075637298046374135\" data-url=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fxshaw\/status\/2075637298046374135\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">message<\/a>. &#8220;Current workforce adjustments had been made to restructure the Xbox enterprise as a result of it&#8217;s not wholesome. They weren&#8217;t made to interchange staff with international staff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-rRYHNEuxapeRmE9wJV2qmA\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-rRYHNEuxapeRmE9wJV2qmA slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Hold updated with a very powerful tales and the perfect offers, as picked by the PC Gamer crew.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The H-1B figures being referenced are Microsoft-wide visa renewals and new rent functions. They aren&#8217;t particular to Xbox and symbolize a small proportion of Microsoft&#8217;s total workforce. And the vast majority of roles impacted weren&#8217;t American roles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shaw additionally made a degree of claiming that &#8220;Xbox is the most important employer of American staff within the gaming business and the most important American gaming firm,&#8221; and that its CEO is &#8220;American born, raised, and educated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" id=\"elk-b9cfd354-7c9d-11f1-be2d-5b504c117ef9\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:945px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:69.31%;\"> <picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-945-80.png.webp 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-945-80.png.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-945-80.png.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-650-80.png.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-480-80.png.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-320-80.png.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX.png\" alt=\"Lots of bad information out there --let&amp;#039;s clear it up.&amp;amp;bull; Recent workforce changes were made to restructure the XBOX business because it is not healthy. They were not made to replace employees with foreign workers.&amp;amp;bull; The H-1B figures being referenced are Microsoft-wide visa renewals and new hire applications. They are not specific to XBOX and represent a small percentage of Microsoft&amp;#039;s overall workforce. And the majority of roles impacted were not American roles.&amp;amp;bull; XBOX is the largest employer of American workers in the gaming industry and the largest American gaming company.&amp;amp;bull; And Asha is an American born, raised, and educated CEO, from Wisconsin.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-945-80.png 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-945-80.png 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-945-80.png 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-650-80.png 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-480-80.png 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX-320-80.png 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\" loading=\"lazy\" data-new-v2-image=\"true\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX.png\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX.png\" class=\"rounded-[var(--image--border-radius,0)] inline expandable\"\/>\n<\/picture><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"expand-button icon-expand-image icon\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/NZmRKRN322CagUppAXthJX.png\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Picture credit score: Frank X. Shaw (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"elk-b9cfd3d6-7c9d-11f1-897d-b5ab6d0e12dd\">Earlier this week, the US Federal Reserve appointed Sharma to a brand new <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/us-federal-reserve-taps-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-who-just-laid-off-3-200-employees-to-lead-task-force-on-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/us-federal-reserve-taps-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-who-just-laid-off-3-200-employees-to-lead-task-force-on-jobs\/\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/us-federal-reserve-taps-xbox-ceo-asha-sharma-who-just-laid-off-3-200-employees-to-lead-task-force-on-jobs\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Productiveness and Jobs job pressure<\/a>, the place she&#8217;s going to assist &#8220;assess the financial affect of latest general-purpose applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence, to tell the Federal Reserve&#8217;s coverage judgments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve seen a variety of complaints and issues in regards to the layoffs at Xbox that put 3,200 folks out of labor and resulted within the spinoff of 4 studios\u2014finally 5, as soon as the Arkane state of affairs is sorted. One I have not run throughout is a declare that it is all a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computer-components"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29964,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29963\/revisions\/29964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}