Silicon Valley is on edge as Trump's immigration policy sparks fears of a high-tech talent shortage

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"Our high skilled immigration system is frozen in time," Box CEO Aaron Levie recently posted on X.

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Uncle Sam just overhauled the H-1B visa lottery, and that's good news for startups

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Reforms to the H-1B visa program aim to ensure all individuals have the same chance of being selected in the lottery.
Reforms to the H-1B visa program aim to ensure all individuals have the same chance of being selected in the lottery.

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The unintended consequences of remote work

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It's Tuesday, readers. I'm Paayal Zaveri, a senior reporter for Insider's tech analysis team, filling in for my colleague Diamond Naga Siu. 

Yesterday marked three years since the US government declared a national emergency around the COVID-19 outbreak. To say time flies is an understatement — our lives have changed so much over the last three years.

Take, for example, remote work.

While remote work offers flexibility, it often comes at the cost of maintaining a work-life balance. Don't fret, though. There are solutions underway. 

America's immigration system is a nightmare, and it's forcing tech companies to move jobs outside of the country

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Companies are increasingly offshoring jobs that would have previously been based in the US, as US immigration gets harder and remote work gets easier.

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Laid off from a startup and on an H-1B visa? Here are 3 main things immigrant workers should know, according to experts.

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Quiet layoffs are underway.
Many laid-off immigrant tech workers on H-1B visas now have a 60-day window to find a new job.

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