Are any contractors or visa employees going to be laid-off, or only direct Nokia employees? After all 14000 layoffs is a huge number, but NOT so huge if they let go most of the contractors and visa employees.
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If you compare the same year 2022 for work visa jobs offered to Ericsson employees in California, there is not one job that pays above $199600 and that is a Directors job. And Santa Clara (Ericsson) is right around the corner (6 miles) from the Sunnyvale Nokia location. Why does Nokia pay almost a $100000 more for a developers job to a visa worker compared to it's competitor only a few miles away?
(No spaces and search for Ericsson 2022 at this site "h1b data ddoott info" )
If you look at the (no spaces in "h1b data ddoott info" ) webpage and put "nokia of america corporation" for year 2022, you will see the top 30 salaries average $200000 or more in software jobs. That's $6 Million dollars for 30 people doing software jobs that so many other people with much lower salaries can do. Why is nokia paying such a huge salary for foreign "software" workers when there are a dime a dozen in any other location outside of California especially with remote and hybrid work policies since covid? And by the way, 2022 was near the end of covid, so why pay over $200000 for these software employees who can work remotely from any lower salary state in USA? And why not hire a USA citizen for over $200K instead? Don't tell me they can't find those specific skills in USA and they only exist in foreign workers? Something really fishy going on for years, if you ask me.
people on visa are also direct employees.
Why not? It might be more than 14k if Nokia keeps losing the customer.