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If they would open offices elsewhere, they would drive prices up there, too. In fact here in Berlin they cancelled their plans after protests by the locals.
by codingmess 7y ago
If they would open offices elsewhere, they would drive prices up there, too. In fact here in Berlin they cancelled their plans after protests by the locals.
- Apocryphon 7y agoThen perhaps they should take remote work more seriously.
- codingmess 7y agoYou assume it is as effective as onsite work, just like that? If that was the case, why haven't remote work companies trounced on site work companies en masse?
- Apocryphon 7y agoWe're not debating the efficacy of the practice, but whether or not it can help prevent rising costs of living caused by tech agglomeration. Certainly "taking remote work more seriously" would include investing in pilot programs, experiments, and innovating processes/technologies to make it better and better. And it's something that large megacorps could work with, if they cared about rising CoL.