Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

A part of the Great Resignation and Great Embarrassment is the Great Transition. We are in this period of time now. We think we know the end state, but things sure are chaotic now with many unforeseen and unwanted events.

We had the Great Resignation. That is still in progress. The pandemic accelerated that.

We had the Great Embarrassment. Again, still in progress and also accelerated by the pandemic. We learned that we have been grossly inefficient in much of what we have done for the last 20 years.

The great reaction is what we really have. Since work from home is now okay, tech companies can recruit nationwide instead of local only. And where are tech companies recruiting? Other tech hubs. That is because that is where the tech talent is. Silicon Valley is hiring from Austin and Washington D.C. and Boston and…

Wait a minute. That’s not how it’s supposed to be. Tech companies are supposed to be recruiting from Kansas and North Dakota. Recruiting from other tech hubs, however, is the way it is. We are in the great transition.

One day, big tech will hire from Kansas and North Dakota. There are colleges in those places and computer science and computer engineering graduates there. But we are not at “one day.” We are here today.
This is the chaos of transition. “In time…” Well, we aren’t at that place, yet.