Thursday, November 07, 2024

Can Remote Workers Reverse Brain Drain?

Business leaders and local officials in Tulsa, Oklahoma, puzzled for years over how to fill the hole created when young people left for big coastal cities. What, they wondered, could keep professionals rooted in the heartland?

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... They ended up turning that premise on its head: Rather than fighting to hold on to native Tulsans, they decided to recruit outsiders. In recent years, the rise of virtual work opened up a new way of responding to the city's brain drain.

Five years after the George Kaiser Family Foundation began offering $10,000 to remote workers willing to move to Tulsa for at least a year, some 3,300 people have taken up the offer. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-05 12:31 AM

30 Big Companies That Hire Remote and Hybrid Workers
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... While some companies are reverting to pre-pandemic policies and requiring staff to return to the office five days a week, others remain committed to work-from-home and hybrid arrangements.

Here are 30 large employers that still hire remote workers. Those looking to work from home should keep in mind that some of the work arrangements below are subject to change, and remote and hybrid work can look different from company to company. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-05 12:34 AM

@#2 ... Those looking to work from home should keep in mind that some of the work arrangements below are subject to change, ...

Yeah, that seems to be a major concern.

The policy can change and, all of a sudden, you are now required to be in the office.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-11-05 12:36 AM

Funny article. Makes it look like Joklahoma is a place tolerable to young hipsters, even those with dark skin or ovaries.

I assure you that all of these transplants have or will notice the following about Okiehomie: the place has lots of friendly folk, but they are narrow-minded, unthinking, uncultured, don't vote and will not spend money for better roads, schools or health care. Graduates of Oklahoma colleges continue to leave the state because of better opportunity and better quality of life nearly anywhere else in the US. Having 1,500-2,000 people come to town for a few years will not change that. Once these recent transplants tire of dining in the same three middling-quality restaurants, going to the same two museums and putting up with Neo-Nazis in political power they will all leave. All of them...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-11-08 09:49 AM

"Makes it look like Joklahoma is a place tolerable to young hipsters, even those with dark skin or ovaries."

The insinuation you make is kind of funny. Many liberals moving out of CA, OR, and WA are moving to more center or conservative states. Yet other liberals still can't make the connection that those states have become so terrible that these people see a brighter future in less liberal states.

#5 | Posted by humtake at 2024-11-08 11:32 AM

Hummer: I know about that which I write. My zip code for the past six years has been 73034--look it up. Having gone to an eastern college and lived much of my life in Ohio, I can recognize a backward place. Oklahoma is a backward place. Know anyone who works for Boeing? Ask them about how easy it is to get employees to transfer here. I've been told by Boeing folk that employees with school-aged children will not come here. I've got neighbors who worked at Boeing and brought their children with them when transferring. An educational horror show resulted...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2024-11-08 01:54 PM

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