Major companies such as Microsoft were asked to fire the foreign employees first in response to the layoff announcement, so that they could hire American citizens. Even with the companies firing foreign workers the economy will be very slow to recover due to millions of U.S. citizens being laid off, and without the same income the result was these citizens could not afford their bills and foreclosures grew rapidly. The housing market dropped and employment rate dropped while the unemployment rate was rising and debt was compiling.
Many companies felt the effects of the global recession. There was a new increased focus on customer retention as many customers struggled to pay every day bills. Like with any industry, those companies that prepared early, improving operation efficiencies and cost cutting, managed to weather the harsh economic storm. Recessions often force companies to think more critically about spending both time and money with respects to efficiency and profitability. They bring about new thinking and change. This looming global recession is being fed by the collapse of housing bubbles in the United