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Not so sure. People who've been living here often can't just go back to where they come from. They wouldn't have moved to the UK if the situation in their count
by user5994461 9y ago
Not so sure. People who've been living here often can't just go back to where they come from. They wouldn't have moved to the UK if the situation in their countries was better.
The effect so far of Brexit is to stop the flood of newcomers, not making establishing people leave. It's good as a developer, less competitors for the same amount of jobs.
- crdoconnor 9y agoI get what you're saying, but contractors by their nature tend to be mobile and motivated by pay. This strongly increases the likelihood of an outflow, especially if companies don't react to the extra taxes by raising pay. The effect is compounded because a) good techies really like to work with other good techies and b) losing most of the good ones also means losing all of the people who can recognize other good techies and hire competently and c) there's a scarcity of mentors too, impeding the ability of junior techies to develop. The UK is still a tech center in spite of Brexit. For now. I've worked in markets before where there's a scarcity of high end talent because it all got sucked away elsewhere and software-wise, these environments produced mediocre crap.
- user5994461 9y agoContractors are mobile in the sense that they can change company every 3 months. They stay in the same area. They are not mobile to move themselves and their family across the border periodically.
- crdoconnor 9y agoshrug half the ones I know have done precisely that already and I've done it too. I don't doubt that there will always be some that won't or can't cross a border though.