Discover: Navigating Immigration Disruptions: How ASM Built a Resilient Talent Strategy Amid Policy Shifts
- Responding to sudden U.S. immigration policy changes that threatened H-1B visa holders and imposed unexpected financial and operational risks, impacting 80% of ASM’s engineering talent pipeline and nearly 40% of its U.S. R&D workforce
- Launching a cross-functional Talent Task Force to manage immediate compliance, mitigate multi-million-dollar exposure, and ensure continuity for employees stranded abroad during policy uncertainty
- Driving long-term impact by redesigning workforce planning to reduce dependency risk, diversify visa strategies, and strengthen global mobility, positioning ASM to sustain innovation and protect critical niche engineering skills in a volatile regulatory environment