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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 04 2017, @11:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the flock-that dept.

Politicians and economists lament that certain alpha regions — SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris — attract all the best jobs while becoming repellently expensive, reducing economic mobility and contributing to further bifurcation between haves and have-nots. But why don't the best jobs move elsewhere?

Of course, many of them can't. The average financier in NYC or London (until Brexit annihilates London's banking industry, of course...) would be laughed out of the office, and not invited back, if they told their boss they wanted to henceforth work from Chiang Mai.

But this isn't true of (much of) the software field. The average web/app developer might have such a request declined; but they would not be laughed at, or fired. The demand for good developers greatly outstrips supply, and in this era of Skype and Slack, there's nothing about software development that requires meatspace interactions.

[...]Some people will tell you that remote teams are inherently less effective and productive than localized ones, or that "serendipitous collisions" are so important that every employee must be forced to the same physical location every day so that these collisions can be manufactured. These people are wrong, as long as the team in question is small — on the order of handfuls, dozens or scores, rather than hundreds or thousands — and flexible.

Because the feedlot isn't hiring for Ruby?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:05AM (#488956)

    The jobs went 'elsewhere'. In the state I live in they literally packed up the machines that made the items then shipped them to Mexico then to china. The people in those areas have nothing other than crime and drugs. There are thousands of those 'company' towns that are now dying or dead. When you see friend after friend OD'ng or ending up in prison, you move on. One city I live near was fairly nice when I moved here about 20 some years ago. Now it is a crime ridden slum. The jobs are gone.