The Growing Realisation That There Is No One True Path To Tech Success
Summary
Leaving aside the lack of financial success in many cases for both founders and the teams they have built, there is increasingly more talk of the effects that driving or riding the rocket ship can have on relationships, mental health and quality of life. Beyond the sticking plaster of mindfulness exercises and counselling in the workplace, (often the cause of so much angst, stress and personal disruption in the first place), there will be an increasing realisation that, for many people, it doesn’t have to be that way. Not just for ‘lifestyle‘ businesses, remote working is being talked about but there are still lots of issues in the way it is positioned and viewed within high growth companies. They’re also increasingly hiring people in locations that are not traditionally considered to be the usual source of remote workers – places where labour is viewed as cheap. San Francisco based Zapier, for example, has made multiple hires from tech behemoths in London, where they consider the talent to be cheap – compared to SF!