This is another reason why working from home is a good thing - I was born and raised in a little town which pretty much wouldn’t have career prospects, but I was lucky enough to get a well paying career that lets me work remotely. I’m spending a good chunk of my money locally, which helps to keep people in jobs in my hometown. I know I’m just a tiny, tiny cog in a big complex machine, but it’s better than channeling yet more money into the big cities. And as a bonus for this little town, it gets to keep an opinionated locally grown weirdo!
This is the most senseless thing about the RTO movement to me. We have a tiny country and, in software at least, jobs are centralised in a few major cities. There was an opportunity for people from all over to live wherever they choose and spend in their local areas, spread the wealth throughout the country.
But nah, let’s go back to the office, the congested and overburdened roads, the noise and air pollution, the hours lost travelling. It’s hugely disappointing.
It’s absolutely shocking to me how much effort the capitalist class is willing to expend for such a small amount of control. It should be a no-brainer for them: reduced overheads, reduced office costs, etc. I guess I’m surprised that the control is worth more to them than the profit.
It should be a no-brainer for them: reduced overheads, reduced office costs, etc. I guess I’m surprised that the control is worth more to them than the profit.
And yet it is. Google didn’t build a £1 billion campus in London because they couldn’t do it in Bristol. They built it because it’s where the power lies in this country. Sadly.
Apple doesn’t dodge tax in deepest darkest Ballina town in County Mayo Ireland, it dodges tax in Dublin because that’s where the power is.
Of course it’s worth it for them. 😥
This is the best summary I could come up with:
More than four in five 16- to 18-year-olds say they need to move from their areas for better opportunities, including more than 90% of those surveyed in the north-east, Yorkshire and the east of England.
A survey of 2,000 people carried out by the Social Mobility Foundation found that on average more than 85% felt they needed to leave.
Tom Brennan, 18, who lives in Ipswich, said: “To be honest, the biggest thing going for the town is its proximity to London.
Lisa Nandy, the shadow cabinet minister for international development, said young people were being forced “to get out to get on [as] the home towns they leave behind have suffered”.
She said young people “will no longer have to choose between home and family and seeking new opportunities” under Labour’s aim for the UK to achieve the highest sustained growth in the G7 which would “provide good jobs across the country”.
Lee Elliot Major, professor of social mobility at the University of Exeter, said the findings were “extremely worrying”.
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I think young people everywhere feel like that.
Life is expensive everywhere.
“If it was good enough for me…” - Dick Whittington
The two people concerned in the article both study computer science.
I’m not saying that there aren’t benefits to being local, but generally-speaking, software development is one of the fields easiest to do remotely.
I’m not saying that companies are always open to that, but it can be made to work.
There are a lot of jobs for which that isn’t a realistic option, true enough. You can’t be a plumber remotely. But of all the examples that they could have chosen, this seems like an odd one.
