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Re:Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show by Hermel on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:10PM (#7207558)
Yes, such quotas are a pain in the ass for a startup. The company I worked for lost a foreign employee because his residence-permit was not renewed after two years.

However, I'm not afraid about Google - they have all the legal processes in place to get non-EU citizens into Switzerland that face quotas already today. And in the worst case, they can still offer them a job in another office.

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Re:Swiss immigration: 50.3% back quotas, final results show by jsnell on Sunday February 09, 2014 @05:39PM (#7207684)
Oh, Google as a whole will of course be fine. But it'd be insane to have a huge engineering office in a small country and a bad immigration policy. So they'll grow elsewhere, and Switzerland loses out. (I worked in Google's Zurich office the last time there was a big immigration quota scare, IIRC 2008 or 2009 when they cut various quotas in half with no warning. It definitely wasn't treated internally as casually as you imply.)
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