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Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by Mandatum on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:49AM (#32778490)
Hiring is speeding up again in Australia and New Zealand in private companies. Government and public sector not so much, but all the consultancies have massive shortages which feeds into public sector quite a bit.

I don’t think it ever really slowed like it has in the US. Then again inflation is only just starting to ramp in Australia. New Zealand doesn’t really have an excuse.

Singapore seems pretty healthy too.

Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by amoghs on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:22AM (#32780307)
Things are so weird here in Oz. There are tons of layoffs in tech, but there's also a huge labour shortage.
Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by throwaway1777 on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:21PM (#32781187)
Misallocation of capital.
Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by alliao on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:02AM (#32778642)
English speaking and comparatively dirt cheap, fear is the good people will be working for US remote companies
Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by thrown_22 on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:17AM (#32780238)
Good people are already working in the US. This is the people who couldn't be bothered moving there.

I've had to tell recruiters straight up that they can't fill that position and never will in Australia/Canada/New Zealand because anyone who could do it is already doing it in the US for x5 the salary they are offering here.

If only the US had a functioning healthcare system I'd move back there too.

Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by cwilkes on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:40AM (#32780573)
If you are getting paid 5x then your healthcare costs aren’t nearly going to approach anything close to that amount.

As a percentage relative to healthcare maybe (say $10 generic drugs instead of $2) but if you are getting $100k more a year who cares ?

Re:Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard re... by thrown_22 on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:54PM (#32785861)
> If you are getting paid 5x then your healthcare costs aren’t nearly going to approach anything close to that amount.

Australia has a hard cap on how much you can be charged for. I lived in the US when I was a teen under the most gold plated of plated plans and after a protracted hospital stay that was over $2m we still have over $100k that was not covered after the company lawyers spent months fighting with the insurance lawyers. Things have only gotten worse since then.

In Australia the same thing cost $2k out of pocket.