Why “workforce” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
me: observes something you: where's your evidence? If you need evidence, look at https://www.levels.fyi/h1b/?q=anthropic . Anthropic seems to need to sponsor…
by linkregister · Oct 8, 2026
> do they plan to increase production? No. Micron has 3 brand new fabs currently under construction, 2 Boise, 1 in New York as the first of 4 planned for a campus. Plus expandin…
by phil21 · Oct 8, 2026
Every H1B I know is both underpaid and unable to change jobs. The companies that use them the most are those that squeeze their employees the hardest. They work hard and are inc…
by taurath · Oct 8, 2026
Considering how many of these adds have more than a hundred of local applicants, and still end up hiring people that are not from North America it is quite clear they do not int…
by TheGamerUncle · Oct 8, 2026
AI progress is so massively out pacing any rate of loss of senior developers though. Just for a thought experiment lets say junior hiring actually goes to 0% starting today and…
by jdprgm · Oct 8, 2026
It's only kind of accurate. It has to be 2 newspapers in the area the person is employed in. Hard to prosecute them for following the rules they are given. The rule is the job h…
by yesb · Oct 8, 2026
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In macroeconomics, the workforce or labour force is the sum of people either working or looking for work : Read more on Wikipedia