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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by onion2k on Monday February 15, 2021 @04:01PM (#26147328)
I don't think any company can afford to employ a significant percentage of the world's tech workers. Google has 150,000 staff, and even if half of them are developers that's only about 0.25% of the number of developers globally. Employing people as a moat only works within a large city (or a few dozen large cities). It can't be done if people can work from anywhere.
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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by lostcolony on Monday February 15, 2021 @04:51PM (#26147948)
They don't need to. They just need to set the market rate so that start ups can't easily hire or retain the best; they're all competing to get into FAANGs, or failing that, companies that have the coffers to be second tier. The startup is left with the people willing to take a pay cut.
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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by r7f7rhr on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:15PM (#26148229)
What's the real pool though? Most of the world's developers are either trash compared to the standard or working in a trash environment like Europe. It's basically SEA and the US in the leagues that matter which is a much smaller pool.
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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by onion2k on Monday February 15, 2021 @05:34PM (#26148473)
I'm in Europe (geographically anyway, technically the UK isn't in Europe right now). It isn't trash but I'd gladly swap my job for a remote one that pays NY wages.
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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by maldini94 on Monday February 15, 2021 @06:03PM (#26148791)
I believe you're confusing the continent Europe with the European Union. UK is certainly in Europe.
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Re:Spotify is letting employees work from anywhere while pay... by onion2k on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:12AM (#26152257)
As a British person who has been living through Brexit for years now, I am acutely aware of the difference. When Brits talk about whether they're in Europe or not it's always with reference to the EU. That's the one that actually makes a difference.
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