[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/oracle-is-moving-its-world-h...
I would guess a lot of these annual trends are just random fluctuations in their dataset, though to be honest I wonder how they're even trying to estimate this kind of information.
[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/austins-reign-as-a-tech-hub-mig...
[2] https://www.signalfire.com/blog/signalfire-state-of-talent-r...
[3] https://www.signalfire.com/blog/state-of-talent-tech-trends
We don't actually have to just sit back and allow ourselves to be constantly laid off, or threatened with being fired if we don't move to a specific city and commute every day. There are things we can do. But we have to get off our asses.
Say what? They're just itching for an excuse to waste money for no reason? I have heard a number of people saying that, and I've never heard anything that sounds like a convincing reason why they should want that.
Don't bother telling me about investments in commercial real estate. First, I've never seen any evidence that the people making these decisions have any such investments. It seems to be a "just so" story rather than anything with any substance behind it. Second, even if they had such investments, the first one who defects wins, and everyone can see that. They should be dumping such investments and then dumping their office buildings.
> ... and an excuse for laying us off at a moment's notice.
WFH does not in any way protect you from being laid off at a moment's notice.
You may be saying that demanding return to office gives them an excuse to lay off everyone who won't comply. That may be true. But they don't actually need that excuse. They can lay you off anyway.
It's not just the state politics that make it hostile, but the shifting climate and refusal of Texas to prepare for these events as well. I was essentially snowed into my apartment during the freeze in 2021 and had about a solid week before I could go anywhere or places started opening up again. I was among the lucky few that still had power too, many of my coworkers lost power for up to a week. Before that point I was already iffy on sticking around, but that event accelerated things massively.
- Apartment rents creeped too high near downtown
- The culture dragged down due to gentrification by alcoholic, kidult, uncool office workers
- Too many unfinished megaprojects downtown ruining the charm
- Houses are way, way cheaper anywhere else, especially in the triangle
- The incidence of severe weather is less in pockets around the 100th meridian west
- MAANG curtailed permanent and hybrid WfH with RTO requiring commuting in a major metro like NYC and SV
cosmicgadget•7mo ago
> We've seen one big shift away, and that was Oracle. So they moved from California to Texas during post-pandemic era, and now they've moved to Nashville.
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Find more discussion about it by searching for "oracle lawn mower"
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Is this codeword for the tech crowd expects salaries in US dollars?
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