• MEDIA: How tech jobs in WA are growing despite layoffs in Seattle area

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Mon May 22 13:32:13 2023
    Seattle Times' Alison Saldanha on whether Susie Wiles fears that Ken
    Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch will allow Ron DeSantis to outflank Donald
    Trump from the right on the National Question by inviting the likes of
    Mike Emmons onto their campaign stage to rally for an immigration
    moratorium: <URL:https://www.seattletimes.com/business/how-tech-jobs-in-wa-are-growing-despite-layoffs-in-seattle-area/>
    | "In particular Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Google have produced
    | some detailed reports trying to explicitly explain how their
    | workforce stacks up on some key diversity issues," he said. "And so
    | over the decade, you can see there's some basic benchmarking that's
    | going on."
    |
    | This has led to an improvement in women's representation, yet women
    | remain rare in technical roles, Courtney pointed out. "And the
    | highest-paying tech jobs are in the computer programming, technical
    | and senior leadership roles."
    |
    | Since the tech industry allows for a large immigrant workforce
    | through the H-1B visa program particularly popular with Indian
    | workers, Asians are overrepresented in the workforce. Black and
    | Hispanic workers still lag behind, Courtney said, attributing this
    | to racism inside and outside the tech industry.

    Will Trump enlist Narendra Modi to serve as a Save America campaign
    surrogate against the Cheap Labor Lobby?
    John
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