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Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by ghaff on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:32PM (#14591802)
Attending conferences isn't about watching a few keynotes many of which are recorded anyway.
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Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by daveJSF on Monday June 19, 2017 @10:54PM (#14591888)
Exactly. It's about the relationships you make there.
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Re:Companies Should Pay for Their Employees to Attend Confer... by BoiledCabbage on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:50AM (#14593018)
And most businesses don't benefit from the relationships you make there enough for them to pay for you to go.

Yes it could happen - but mostly it doesn't. Particularly if we're talking about engineers in tech.

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