Cloud lock-in is real infoworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from infoworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Writing for Computerworld, contributor Mike Elgan draws on his own long experience as a digital nomad in “Remote work 2.0 when WFH really means ‘work from anywhere’” to make a bold prediction: Tech workers will migrate en masse from high-priced urban tech hubs to cheaper, less populous locales with lower risk of contagion.
Advertisement
That trend, already underway in some regions, plays right into the hands of certain US states (including Ark., Okla., and Vt.) looking to lure tech workers, not to mention entire countries, such as Croatia, Estonia, and the Czech Republic. But as Elgan notes, the HR, payroll, tax, and legal complexities of global geographic dispersal should not be underestimated. The brave new world of pervasive remote work is going to be complicated.
PinePhone: A Linux smartphone a developer could love infoworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from infoworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
What will your worklife be like years from now? Today's work-from-home world has given us a glimpse of the future, as these five articles from CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World illustrate.
in. well, i don t know. it would ve been jim mattis and before him h.r. mcmaster. those are two points that trump made that i had a lot of confidence in. there s a lot of chaos at the department of defense, obviously. we don t have an acting secretary right now. joan bottlon s views on iran are clear. he s a hawk on it. i think he s committed to wanting that regime overthrown. if we could get it overthrown, that would be fine. but the question is how and at what cost. mike pompeo, we ll see. this is a testing period. sometimes people rise to the moment. sometimes they don t. but if you ask me right now who i have confidence in the administration, i d say there are not a lot of them. but my chief worry is the president. he is the commander in chief. that s where the decisions ultimately are made. peter, good to see you again. thank you for joining me. he served in three republican administrations, ronald reagan and both bush white houses and the author of the death of politics.