88 Percent Of Tech Workers Say They Plan To Leave Their Jobs

[yuiyoshida]

(wow, wtf?)



Home to Apple, Facebook, and Google, Silicon Valley is considered by many to be the center of the tech world. And while people travel from all over both to work for and visit the companies that shape our digital lives, it turns out that most tech workers don't actually consider working in the Valley all that important. So concludes a new study from job site Indeed which found that almost 70 percent of tech workers surveyed said that having a job actually located in Silicon Valley is "not important." Also, tellingly, 88 percent say they plan to leave their jobs within a year, with many in the Bay Area saying they're looking elsewhere — something we've heard a couple times recently via polls.

The jobs site surveyed "high-demand tech professionals," a group defined by the Business Times as "developers, technical specialists or analysts," on its paid premium version Indeed Prime and confirmed what seems to make intuitive sense — showing up to a specific office park every day isn't viewed as all that crucial when you can just work remotely from a laptop.

According to the survey, 46.1 percent of tech workers aged 18 to 65 rated the importance of working in Silicon Valley as "not at all important," while another 22.2 percent rated it as "not that important." Younger workers, who likely don't have families or mortgages, tended to say it was important to be in the industry center early in their career, with 45 percent saying so.

These feelings appear to contrast with the belief of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who reportedly just recently spoke of the importance of having his employees clustered together at the Menlo Park Facebook HQ. If the results of the Indeed survey are to be believed, a majority of his own employees might not agree with him.

Zuckerberg probably shouldn't worry about those findings too much, however, as the same survey observed that tech workers still think the larger Silicon Valley/Bay Area region is where the jobs — important or not — are located.

http://sfist.com/2016/07/07/turns_out_most_tech_workers_dont_th.php

[arcane1]

1. We have an enormous housing bubble over temporary workers in companies designed to be sold.

The bubble can't burst fast enough for my tastes.

[seabeckind]

2. The corporate culture in this country

is based on the idea that labor is a resource, to be exploited and then abandoned when it is no longer profitable.

The corporations feel no loyalty to their workers.

What goes around comes around. The work environment in the tech fields doesn't reward ingenuity and innovation any more. This was what drove the tech boom. Not investment, people. People who have a cultural background that put them outside the box of corporate ops.

That was lost in the pursuit of profits. The workers are responding in kind.

Time to change the culture.

The jobs CAN come back.

[arcane1]

3. Hell it's not even about profits now, it's about 1,000% return on venture capital.

"Unsustainable" doesn't even begin to describe it.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. And people seem oblivious to it?

I mean, why can't people see what's coming? A lot of people say they feel this or that way about the future, but don't they understand that it can't go on like this? Shit, how big of a war will we have to start to keep all of it propped up? Scary times.

[arcane1]

7. Too many tv shows and smart phone games. Long-term thinking is OUT n/t

[trumad]

4. I work for a tech company in the private sector.

The only thing my execs think about is selling the company and making their coin on the sale. No big picture future with these guys....

[arcane1]

6. That's the basic premise of Rushkoff's latest book, too.

Meanwhile, the University of San Francisco has an ad campaign with the slogan "University of 'Look mom, I just got funded!'"