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Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers

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134 points christhecaribou | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 16:22 UTC | HN request time: 0.282s | source
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firesteelrain ◴[31 Aug 25 16:54 UTC] No.45084705[source]▶
The sad part in all of this is that Microsoft likely had no policy that required him to work this much and yet the Microsoft cultural pressure combined with H1B unknowns drove him to not take care of himself and apply immense amounts of undue pressure. Managers need to be aware of this and question why their employees feel the need to work this much. Either hire more or coach the employees not to burn out.
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1. krmboya ◴[01 Sep 25 04:08 UTC] No.45089356[source]▶
As a non American who would benefit from a H1B visa, I'll say the "America first" people are right when it comes to the H1B visa misuse.

Currently it is used as a tool to extract maximum labour for cheap compared to hiring Americans. We don't call it slave labour because the immigrant is paid decently, but they are held hostage by multiple factors; career aspirations, family expectations and the like.. So easier to manipulate while denying opportunity for actual Americans.

Needs serious reform. A simple one is, pay H1Bs higher salaries than market rate. This would create the economic incentives for companies to use H1Bs only when really needed