Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely

Re:Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zeal... by roca on Thursday July 08, 2021 @06:45PM (#27778549)

That's a good question. However, as a NZer, I think it's a pretty good deal for NZ to admit someone like Hölzle even if he only stays here for a year. For sure he will contribute to the economy by spending significant amounts (we have a sales tax he can't evade), and we should be able to collect income tax too. It's also good for our tech industry to have people like him around.

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Re:Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zeal... by roca on Thursday July 08, 2021 @07:11PM (#27778737)

I have no reason to believe Hölzle is particularly corrupt or that he obtained entry in a way that's more corrupt than the banal "paid really diligent people to work the bureaucracy to his advantage". NZ's tolerance for personal bribery of officials is very low.

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Re:Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zeal... by techcode on Friday July 09, 2021 @02:11AM (#27780898)

Oh wow...

While being Serbian, with family from Croatia (some of which are now there dealing with corrupt government employees accepting faked papers to transfer land ownership). Means I totally get the pessimistic and corruption focused view of the world/governments/etc.

We just don't have enough info to go into such tabloid level direction for this guy.

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Maybe his wife or one of grandparents came from N.Z. and he can live/work there without visa?!?

Maybe it's intra-company transfer (like how many Googlers from "east" start in EU/Canada, and then get transferred to USA after a year or two) there?

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Either way - it's still pretty shitty "Do as I say, not as I do" behavior from the guy, and Google itself (Hey, here are great tools for remote collaboration with your team - as long as you're not a Google employee).

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Re:Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zeal... by disabled on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:23AM (#27783954)

You’re right. I am being overly judgmental here.

I am also sorry that your family is dealing with Croatian government corruption, which is never OK. I hope your family is able to get a good lawyer, that will protect your family’s interests and needs.

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Re:Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zeal... by NamTaf on Thursday July 08, 2021 @11:53PM (#27780320)

You really need to provide evidence to some of your claims here.

People have shown that NZ has investment pathways. It’s entirely possible he used them. If you disagree with those, fine, that’s your call. However, that doesn’t make it corruption, and you shouldn’t frame it as such.

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Re:Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zeal... by disabled on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:06AM (#27780385)

I provided evidence earlier with contextual information via this link, which was a huge document produced by the European Union on golden visas and golden passports: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?re...

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Re:Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zeal... by roca on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:19AM (#27780446)

FWIW, in the NZ context, AFAIK there are no tax advantages for NZ's investor visa schemes (over whatever all NZers enjoy). And NZ is far from a tax haven.

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Re:Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zeal... by taway_scott on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:38AM (#27780524)

Wow this is borderline slander.

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