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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:13AM (1 child)
Had we not been paying up and leaving that woman would have had a glass of water on her head
look out folks we have an almost bad ass here...
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Wednesday April 05 2017, @02:41AM
To be clear, I hate smokers. Have since high school, 70's. A glass of water on her head would have been the minimum I did to her.
No internet tough guy here, just a non-smoker who hated smoke.
When the dust settled America realized it was saved by a porn star.