That seems clever at first glance, but I'm not sure it actually makes sense. If they laid off sales and recruiters, but need to hire software engineers, it's no

That seems clever at first glance, but I'm not sure it actually makes sense. If they laid off sales and recruiters, but need to hire software engineers, it's not like the sales people were fungible resources who could've just switched into software roles. It's very possible to BOTH have an excess of employees in one type of role, and still be struggling to hire a different (more difficult-to-fill) type of role. Maybe if they only lose their H1B quota for the specific types of roles they laid off, but that seems like it would be very complicated to enforce.