Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone?

Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by ChrisMarshallNY on Saturday July 31, 2021 @07:36AM (#28017194)

I could probably go to the Web sites of at least a dozen successful IT companies, and go to the "Meet the Team" page.

They are invariably a large group of smiling -young- faces. There may be one or two greyhairs in the picture, but a quick shufti of the "Leadership" page often shows them to be C-suite or Board.

Yeah, I'm a cynic.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by cbushko on Saturday July 31, 2021 @08:57AM (#28017704)

When you are old, everyone looks young. =)

I see 35 year olds and think "that guy is just a kid"!

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by bumby on Saturday July 31, 2021 @12:00PM (#28019273)

This made me chuckle as it reminded me of an older employee referring to another employee as “one of the good interns”. Except the guy he was talking about was in his late 30s and had been with the company for over 5 years :-)

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by detaro on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:01AM (#28017741)

I wonder if there's a corelation in the sense that the young-biased "startup-y" companies are more likely to even have something like a "meet the team" page. (I.e. you kind of need to be below a certain size, and even then plenty places don't have them)

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by robertlagrant on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:42PM (#28020153)

There's a fairly common ideal of what a team photo should look like, and so the people that contribute to that ideal will be in the photo.

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Re:Employee shortages: Where have all the workers gone? by pydry on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:26AM (#28017938)

This is certainly the case for newer VC funded companies. That isnt all of tech though.

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