Sentences with phrase «tech workers from»

Although San Francisco tech workers have the highest nominal wages in the country ($ 134K annually), the study found that tech workers from nine other US cities are actually «better off.»

Mayor Rahm Emanuel explains that his «vision is to make Chicago the most bike - friendly city in the United States,» attracting energetic tech workers from historically bike - friendly areas like Seattle.

A growing number of engineers and tech workers from the San Francisco Bay Area are looking to leave Silicon Valley for burgeoning tech hubs such as Austin, Texas, and Seattle, Washington, according to a job - search site's data.

Kim Hoe, a 33 - year - old tech worker from Penang, Malaysia, was staying at the Hilton Sonoma Wine Country, which was gutted by flames.

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In November, finance minister Bill Morneau announced upcoming changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers program, which will simplify and speed up the hiring process for high - growth (mainly tech) companies recruiting from abroad.

Duncan notes that foreign workers both start far more businesses than Americans, and that they're needed to avoid potentially crippling labor shortages in industries from farming to construction to tech.

Researchers Chris Benner and Kyle Neering from the University of California Santa Cruz estimate as many as 39,000 workers in San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties are contracted to tech companies.

While van dwelling is an increasingly popular lifestyle choice among tech workers in Silicon Valley, it's far from mainstream, making resources sparse for prospective or struggling road warriors.

A 2016 report from Benner and Neering found the average yearly pay for tech employees was $ 113,000 while the pay for blue - collar contract workers was $ 19,900.

Virtual office space is no longer just for cool tech professionals — it's for many American employees who work for companies that don't see the point in footing the bill for rent when their workers can just as easily work from home.

The Brisbane Baylands project has received sharp criticism from people living in Brisbane, who don't want to see an influx of tech workers change the character of their neighborhoods.

«A few cosmetic changes to the form and rollout of the travel order do not change its original intent,» said a statement from Tech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal coTech Stands Up, a grassroots group of tech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal cotech industry workers that was formed after President Trump's initial immigration order, which was halted in federal court.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan told the Seattle Times that she was «deeply concerned about the impact this decision will have on a large range of jobs — from our building trades, to restaurant workers, to nurses, manufacturing jobs and tech workers.»

Trump has proposed a «merit - based» immigration policy that he's said will directly benefit tech companies like Facebook that already rely on being able to hire skilled workers from other countries.

Infosys, which employs more than 200,000 workers worldwide, was under the spotlight last year as President Donald Trump targeted the American H - 1B visa program that tech companies have heavily relied upon to temporarily bring in workers from other countries at lower wages.

And the association has been joining hands with groups like Silicon Valley Leadership Group to show members of Congress how the economies of states like California are almost entirely dependent on foreign workers, from the people who grow and produce food there to the people who are creating high - tech jobs at startups in Silicon Valley, Regelbrugge says

Last year, Scotiabank unveiled a 70,000 - square - foot «digital factory» separate from its main campus to lure high - tech skilled workers and develop technological innovations.

A consistent shortage of these temporary work visas prevents U.S. tech companies from hiring the foreign - born scientific and engineering workers they need.

Canadian immigration lawyers have reportedly seen an influx in interest from non-citizen tech workers in the U.S. Meanwhile, a company named TrueNorth has been set up to help businesses move employees potentially affected by any H - 1B visa changes over to Vancouver.

The tech industry has never supported DACA recipients as strongly as it supports H - 1B workers, but there are signs from key leaders that this could change.

From policy - comparison engines to tech - enabled health coverage and insurance tools for on - demand workers, startups are invading the multi-trillion dollar insurance industry — and investors are chasing them.

Recruit more tech - savvy workers who might otherwise spurn the bond manager for traditional software companies, people familiar with the matter said... Many of those new employees will be engineers tasked with modernizing Pimco's technology systems, from the tools used to harness new databases of information to the platforms that trade bonds electronically.

That proposal was controversial because some critics view it as a way for tech companies to simply save money on labor costs by relying on lower - paid workers from overseas.

Sixty - five percent of H - 1B petitions approved in the 2014 fiscal year went to tech workers, mostly from India, according to USCIS.

The act is rendered useless in the modern white collar and service economy, everyone is salaried, everyone works non-paid overtime, everyone exempt, tech workers have special exemption from Clinton era regulation.

With Aetna Inc. looking to move its headquarters from Hartford, on the heels of General Electric Co.'s shift to Boston, Connecticut's economic development strategy may now turn inward, boosting its cities to attract high - tech workers and fixing state government's crisis - prone budgeting.

There is outraged public reaction to the Google buses carrying technology workers from the city to the peninsula high - tech companies which employ them.

Increasing the number of visas available for guest workers and high - tech workers while protecting employers from burdensome enforcement requirements are top priorities for retailers.

The idea of basic income — in which the government gives all citizens a small monthly stipend — has grown popular in tech circles, not in the least because it's seen as a possible solution to the looming problem of robots, artificial intelligence, and automation taking jobs away from human workers.

As of Monday, there has been no official comments on the latest move to target miners, who has enjoyed big support from government policies, categorizing employees in the sector as high - tech workers.

It might be an experiment from their part — which will do better with the young, creative, and tech savvy workers: the one with a Regus name or the one without it?

Having worked in Australia for 10 years before moving back to the US in 2013, Ms Tejada said Australia had a strong talent pool of tech workers, ranging from engineers to sales staff, and she was considering shifting some US - based jobs to Sydney.

There's also the Nigerian tech worker who trains the staff at his start up with Coursera classes, and the 47 - year old American man who went from living in his car to becoming a college freshman after building his confidence with an online class.

In 2000, the government tried to bring in 20,000 foreign high - tech workers, but this was met with strong opposition from the public.

Vikings star Gustaf Skarsgård joins the cast as white collar worker Karl Strand while Fares Fares from Rogue One is playing tech expert Antoine Costa.

Your Workers Want To Learn), recent research from educational tech company Degreed shows while workers spend an average of 37 minutes learning through employer - sponsored training and resources every week, they spend 3.3 hours learning on theWorkers Want To Learn), recent research from educational tech company Degreed shows while workers spend an average of 37 minutes learning through employer - sponsored training and resources every week, they spend 3.3 hours learning on theworkers spend an average of 37 minutes learning through employer - sponsored training and resources every week, they spend 3.3 hours learning on their own.

As they proceeded up Michigan Ave. and then west on Adams, they were greeted with signs of support from onlookers — a group of custodians, some medical techs, hard - hatted construction workers and retail clerks.

Serious computer geeks who looked and smelled great... from the way the sexy tech workers talked about Amazon.com, it appeared I'd really missed the boat....

Amazon has nabbed screen tech firm Liquavista from Samsung, potentially for its use in building a colour ereader, while its workers go on strike in Germany.

Silicon Valley workers, for instance, are often hopping from one tech company to another.

Applicants typically are referred to this program by vets, vet techs, groomers, case managers / social workers, and landlords from income controlled housing, who are aware of the pet owner's income status.

It did not take long before the phone starting ringing with referrals from vets, vet techs, controlled rent housing managers and social workers who had a pet owner with a senior dog in need of assistance.

Embittered and perplexed players can't get live tech support or — as is so often the case — the misguided catharsis they crave from letting some innocent customer support worker have it.

In the episode above, after sharing a wise tech prediction, Ashen looks at several «forgotten» British video games from the»80s, such as SCAB, a short but cutting action title from the North Dereham Workers Liberation Party depicting «what life as a coal miner was like in [Margaret] Thatcher's Britain.»

Lights flicker, shelves gather dust and cables twist like snakes — all that's missing from this high - tech workspace are workers, leaving you feeling like a lab rat in a maze

Julien's visually stunning, multi-perspectival installations chronicle compelling stories of financiers and migrant laborers, art world players and domestic workers that resonate poignantly with both the prosperity and inequality arising from the innovations of the high - tech economic sector.

Congressman McNerney knows that investing in a domestic workforce for clean tech will help ensure that that U.S. workers and the U.S. economy are able to benefit from continued growth in green jobs, and that bringing clean energies to scale will address ocean acidification, perhaps the biggest threat to ocean health worldwide.

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Tech giants such as Facebook and other big companies, from Bank of America to Caterpillar, have long argued that the 85,000 annual cap on these visas is too low and that they need to bring in more foreign tech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American workTech giants such as Facebook and other big companies, from Bank of America to Caterpillar, have long argued that the 85,000 annual cap on these visas is too low and that they need to bring in more foreign tech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American worktech workers because they can't find enough highly - skilled American workers.

But after McClatchy reported over New Year's weekend that the agency was weighing a specific policy shift that would prevent foreign tech industry workers from keeping their visas longer than six years, the agency reversed course on that proposal.