Sentences with phrase «with tech workers»

In San Francisco, real estate agents have jousted with tech workers over their obsession with living in the city.

These thoughts fall away as I pass the food line at Glide Memorial Church, the sidewalk filled with the poor and with tech workers navigating «The Loin» with $ 600 cellphones, the latest laptops snug in their briefcases.

Not exact matches

Indian immigrants were standing shoulder - to - shoulder with the world's most innovative tech workers, and were matching them in entrepreneurship.

LinkedIn was the most racially diverse tech company, with 34 percent white workers, and eBay was the most gender diverse, with 76 percent male workers.

Some bearish investors argued that Silicon Valley has become increasingly dependent on immigrant workers, with seven of the most well - known tech firms helmed by immigrants or their children.

The move would be another step in Trump's hardline nationalist agenda, with the aim of coercing tech companies into prioritizing non-immigrant American workers.

(Tech startups often bring in workers on temporary three - year work permits with the intention of sponsoring them for permanent residence; each application usually requires an LMIA.)

«As the economic tides change, the Bay Area, with its entrenched tech workforce, is the perfect place to take the pulse of worker expectations and how they are shifting over time,» Woo CEO Liran Kotzer told the Business Times.

Walmart (wmt) said on Friday it is testing a service with tech company August Home in which workers can bring deliveries all the way into your kitchen and even unload the items into your refrigerator and freezer in your absence.

The firm is already helping a variety of major cancer centers with its tech; the new worker benefit program will allow employees to consult with their doctors by giving them their medical history and getting their specific cancers genetically sequenced.

BC's provincial government has made a concerted effort to make it easy for U.S. tech companies to open offices in Canada, providing financial incentives and working with the federal government to expedite visas for skilled foreign workers.

A lot of tech campuses are structured to provide perks like food, gyms, laundry, etc. so that workers can work longer and not have to deal with those things outside of work.

You won't hear baristas asking that question in San Francisco coffee shops just yet — but a growing number of tech workers are drinking coffee with butter for a unique kind of jolt.

According to a new study by Hired.com, a business that matches tech workers with jobs, women are still both asking for and receiving smaller salaries than men.

In Canada, for instance, a recently introduced Global Skills program allows tech workers to obtain work permits in just two weeks» time, compared with the roughly six months it would take to obtain an H - 1B visa stateside.

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

Yet in December, the tech giant took an important step to make its workplace culture more amenable to aggrieved employees when it eliminated forced arbitration agreements with workers who bring sexual harassment claims.

He has called for a wall on the border with Mexico, but the plank that matters most for tech is his plan to increase mandated wage levels for workers arriving with H - 1B visas, and to require that companies prioritize hiring Americans.

But for other targeted groups, like the superwealthy or high - tech workers, we're dealing with more myth than reality.

In a grey t - shirt, baggy jeans, and fluorescent striped sneakers, Ryan Krems fits right in with the many tech workers on a late summer day in Boston's buzzy Seaport District neighborhood.

Tech workers comprise as much as 17 percent of the Alpharetta work force, with IT workers at 15 percent.

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.

Yet Mr. Trump's immigration order has been so unpopular with so many tech workers — many of whom are immigrants themselves and who advocate globalization — that they are now exerting pressure on their chief executives to push back forcefully against the administration.

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.

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

Although metro - wide the rent impacts would be relatively small, rents in specific neighborhoods that are popular with tech - workers would likely see much larger rent increases.

An earlier version of a chart with this article misstated the number of tech workers in San Francisco in 2013.

Smaller, less developed markets such as Raleigh and Columbus, Ohio, are likely to better cope with 50,000 new tech workers than larger, housing - constrained cities such as Denver, Boston and New York, Vivas adds.

With strong demand for workers, some employers might identify prospective wind techs before students complete their two - year program.

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?

«And very likely, at the lower end of the scale, employers will take a hard look at new tech and ways to replace human workers with automation,» he said.

Kansas City fared better than New York City and Los Angeles in metrics such as tech workers per capita, share of workers with a Bachelor's degree or higher, entrepreneurial growth and share of «knowledge» workers, defined as those in occupations such as architecture, social science, health care and education.

Many people in high - tech fields prefer to work in the «lower 48» or if they do go to Alaska, Westward Seafood must compete with the petroleum industry for workers.

As millennial tech workers cruise by in their workout gear — guys wearing Vans with high socks, backpacks with logos for companies like Uber and Optimizely, vintage striped basketball shorts — I face the worst burrito of my life.

It seems the successful tech companies of the Silicon Valley have begun to incorporate a camp - style experience with office life, maintaining that happy workers do a better job.

The plant is scheduled to begin operation in the first quarter of next year, with up to 400 workers, and is projected to create 1,460 high - tech jobs.

Isn't it possible that foreign tech workers are «associated» with high levels of American employment because technology jobs cluster in areas with strong employment?

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.

Following intrepid young rookie Mae Holland (Emma Watson) as she finds herself inducted into the hive headquarters of Apple - like tech conglomerate The Circle (with a Google-esque dual housing / work facility that its workers, known as Circlers, never seem to leave), Ponsoldt's film begins by charting an incredibly familiar and shallow trajectory that we've seen in plenty of tales of tech terror like 1984 and Eagle Eye.

IT Academies: As the demand for high - tech workers rapidly increases, new information - technology academies that opened this fall in 12 high schools could help fill a pressing need for graduates with technology skills, supporters say.

The fact that the very high - tech companies that represent America's economic future have to look abroad for workers with the needed skills is a chilling sign that we have to get our act together when it comes to public education.

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.

With an influx of tech workers into San Francisco in recent years, the disparity between the rich and the poor is more alarming than ever with studies comparing income inequality in San Francisco on par with that of a developing counWith an influx of tech workers into San Francisco in recent years, the disparity between the rich and the poor is more alarming than ever with studies comparing income inequality in San Francisco on par with that of a developing counwith studies comparing income inequality in San Francisco on par with that of a developing counwith that of a developing country.

Workers were told that the car would have polymer body panels and Saturn's high - tech paint system, two key attributes that Hudler said were synonymous with the company, a union source said last week.

Because the tech industry is so strong in this part of North Carolina, and because there are so many temporary workers here, we often get questions about whether those people can get renters insurance in High Point with an H - 1B or other temporary visa.

In addition, experienced vet techs may be placed in a supervisory position, where they will work with the veterinarian to ensure that other vet techs, veterinary assistants and volunteer workers provide effective care for all of the animals in the veterinary care facility.

Standing on the rock of The Bond, with the steadfast knowledge of the importance of the human - animal health connection, my eyes are directed to a future where all of those who take care of animals — veterinarians, veterinary nurses, shelter workers, veterinary team members, groomers, trainers, staff at boarding facilities, zoo workers, lab animal techs, animal handlers (dairy barns, pork facilities, egg production, etc.) and end - of - life professionals — all look after the emotional well - being of animals.

J: Vet techs, rescue and shelter workers, animal control officers, individuals with pets who are suffering — compassion fatigue seems to touch so many of us.

Note: Although this seminar was presented to an audience of primarily trainers, it is also invaluable for owners, rescue and shelter workers, vet techs, and anyone who works with fearful dogs.