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Comment on Dutch government scrambling to keep ASML in Netherlands

A lot of IT companies in NL hire foreigners. There’s just too little local offer. They throw with work visas as a result, because they’ve never heard about remote-first work being possible after covid. They can’t modernize their work culture because of stupid old fashioned managers and as a result NL has one of the worst housing crisis in Europe. And pay ain’t that good either in a lot of cases, taking into account how much you lose on rent.

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Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
the problem is at least on the U.S end, Sam Jose is part of the Silicon Valley. Talent is not the problem, its the people who ultimately choose to hire is going out of its way to hire talent that seemed non local.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
See this is the sad part.

I’d take a job in NL only if it let me relo there for awhile. My bro did that for a few posts, and got a year or two in new country to explore on the weekends.

So while remote-first is how I want to work, I’d want resources and ability to relo to a new place every few years.

Especially in I-T, if you can’t go somewhere new and enjoy new sounds, sights, smells and customs, and you’re stuck in a sad cube jungle with no excitement at the end of the week, you may as well report to the Soylent green plant.

Time to refit the cruise ship for live-abort remote global work for me and like 6000 of my friends. Starlink works on the cruise runs, right?

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