Cisco lays off 600 to 700 workers at headquarters

Hello all,

Given this most recent notice of Friday's Cisco System's layoff, I have no idea on how many American workers or (if) H1B workers were affected but here's the coverage on washingtonpost.com:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/17/AR2009071702594.html

However, I was curious to see if there were still any outstanding H1B openings listed at the website "Myvisajobs.com" that I mentioned before in a previous blog. Just out of curiosity I referenced that site to take a look. Now folks, maybe Cisco just has not removed H1B requests from the myvisajobs.com site yet ... but ... what I found makes me wonder. Take a look for yourself:

http://myvisajobs.com/H1B_Visas.aspx?Z=94087&E=cisco&R=100&OG=All&SO=all&Y=All

Anyway, I will be curious if the Cisco H1B (San Jose, Calif) request will be removed soon or... will remain active.

While we're on the subject of Friday's Cisco layoff notice, I invite you to check another blog with an interesting name "LayoffBlog.com" discussing the H1B subject.

http://layoffblog.com/2009/07/16/cisco-lays-off-several-hundred-workers/

Some pretty good responses to that blog piece that you might find interesting. Meantime, as the Great Recession continues to devour American workers, let's not forget to buckle up and prepare for a rough economic ride in the months to come.
Meantime, as always, your comments are invited. Cheers