mumbai there are more than 12 million unique job vacancy postings in computer occupations in the us as of september 6 2021 according to the national foundation for american policy nfap a nonpartisan policy research organisation its latest study based on data from emsi job posting analytics points out that this is up 15 from six months earliercompanies that already found it challenging to find the right skilled talent had to face another hurdle they were subsequently caught in the pandemic related travel bans a national interest waiver that enabled a h1b beneficiary to travel to the us was not easy to obtain only recently the us administration has announced that come november it will lift the travel ban for those who are fully vaccinatedthe study explains to put the more than 12 million active job vacancy postings in computer occupations in perspective companies can file for only 85000 new h1b petitions in a yearand about twothirds of companysponsored new h1b petitions or 56000 a year are in computer occupations that would mean there are more than 20 times more job vacancy postings in computer occupations as new h1b petitions typically used by companies in computer occupations each year even if one adopted a zerosum approach to jobsto illustrate for the fiscal 2022 year commencing october 1 2021 sponsoring companies filed 308 lakh h1b cap registrations of which only 85000 h1b cap visas can be allotted the h1b annual limit has been exhausted every year since 2004 points out the studythere are also likely many more openings than publicly posted positions there is not a fixed number of jobs and people with high skills often create more jobs for people with complementary skills it addsadditional evidence that h1b visa holders are not taking jobs from us workers is that top employers of h1b visa holders have many active job postings in computer occupations amazon had at least 20000 job vacancy postings in computer occupations as of september 6 2021 accenture had more than 19000 and apple had at least 5700 these companies and others also had many job vacancy postings for highskilled positions in noncomputer occupations including management analysts operations managers marketing managers and otherscompanies have an ongoing need for more highly skilled professionals to grow and an insufficient number of available workers slows growth in the us economy and encourages businesses to move more work outside the united states said stuart anderson executive director nfapcomputer jobs were already fastgrowing before the pandemic but it is still remarkable to see now a 15 increase in job postings from six months ago after an 11 increase from the previous 12month period said mark regets a labour economist and a senior fellow at the nfap this is consistent with the low unemployment rates we see in computer occupations companies have needed a lot of it information technology talent to reorganize their businesses during the pandemic and many of the changes will be longterm he addedh1b visa holders do not adversely affect