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Pandemic threatens dominance of ‘superstar’ tech cities, creating new uncertainty for innovation hubs

The seemingly unstoppable trend of tech companies and talent concentrating in a few cities hit a brick wall in March.… Read More

Tech leaders slam Trump’s temporary work visa ban

Leaders from across U.S. technology industry are condemning new restrictions on employment-based visas imposed by President Donald Trump this week.… Read More

Why Amazon can sue a former cloud VP for joining Google despite state’s new non-compete law

Amazon’s attempt to enforce a non-compete agreement with a former marketing executive who took a job at Google caused a… Read More

Study finds ‘crisis of regional imbalance’ as Seattle and 4 other regions dominate tech job growth

Seattle, San Francisco and other tech hubs are capturing a growing percentage of innovation jobs in the United States, according… Read More

Here’s why Seattle is the country’s top emerging life sciences market

Seattle is the top emerging life sciences hub in the U.S., according to a recent report from commercial real estate… Read More

Toronto

US immigration policy has employers eyeing Canada for job growth

As the United States cracks down on employment-based immigration programs, Canada has been aggressively marketing itself as a friendly alternative… Read More

Washington state Democrats to push for controversial non-compete legislation again

The Washington state legislature plans to take up one of the tech industry’s most hot-button issues next session: non-compete agreements.… Read More

Seattleites are most likely to move to these Amazon HQ2 cities — does that give them an edge?

In its hometown, Seattle, Amazon benefits from a well-educated, tech-savvy pool of talent. The company is looking for another city… Read More

The case for Amazon HQ2 in Toronto gets stronger amid Trump attacks and tech boom

Amid a steady drumbeat of attacks from President Trump that probably don’t make Amazon feel particularly loyal to the leader… Read More

Families brought to U.S. for tech jobs face ‘infuriating and degrading’ delays from USCIS

Jansi Kumar immigrated from India to the United States in 2016 because of a promise. She would be allowed to… Read More

US immigration authorities target outsourcing firms in new H-1B visa memo

The federal government plans to apply more scrutiny to third-party staffing agencies seeking skilled work visas to bring foreign-born workers… Read More

Employment lawyers puzzled over IBM’s non-compete suit against Microsoft’s new diversity chief

IBM’s decision to sue a longtime human resources executive for taking a new job at Microsoft is raising questions among… Read More

Tech industry slams GOP plan to dramatically cut legal immigration

At a White House event this week, President Donald Trump backed sweeping cuts to the legal U.S. immigration system and said… Read More

GeekWire Awards: Cast your ballot for Northwest tech’s Hire of the Year

Good talent is hard to come by in the tech world, which makes competition for the best and brightest fierce.… Read More

It’s true: Seattle tech engineers are more loyal than those in San Francisco, Indeed data confirms

Software engineers in Seattle stay at companies an average of six months longer than do their counterparts in San Francisco,… Read More

Why industry and education must collaborate to solve the tech talent gap, fight sexism and ageism

To those in the industry, the tech talent gap and diversity in the workforce are almost becoming tired subjects. There are… Read More

Why startups in Seattle are struggling for talent, and how that contrasts with Portland

Seattle’s tech industry is on fire with Microsoft and Amazon growing like mad, and dozens of Silicon Valley tech giants… Read More

A year later, how Microsoft’s jobs program for people with autism is working

It has been more than a year since Microsoft announced a pilot jobs program to specifically accommodate people on the autism… Read More

Amazon experiments with tech teams consisting entirely of part-time employees, with full benefits

A new pilot program inside Amazon is creating technical teams consisting entirely of part-time employees — including managers — in the company’s latest attempt to… Read More

The Amazon effect? Study says Washington state one of top importers of new residents

Seeing a lot of moving vans around Capitol Hill, Ballard and Queen Anne? You might have some new neighbors moving… Read More

College grads would rather work at Microsoft over Amazon, Facebook

Maybe it’s the wacky and awesome commercials they’ve been putting out. Or it could be company’s reputation as an impressive… Read More

The Climate Corp. picks Seattle for branch office, looks to cultivate talent to crunch weather data

Over the course of the past 18 months, a number of California tech titans (Facebook, Salesforce.com, Zynga and Hulu) have… Read More

Podcast

Rewind: UW’s Ed Lazowska on the engineering talent crunch

Our guest this past week on the GeekWire Podcast was Ed Lazowska, the longtime computer science professor who holds the… Read More

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