Canada saw an intake of over 30,000 foreign tech workers within the last year, according to a new report from the Technology Councils of North America and Canada’s Tech Network.
Canada saw an intake of over 30,000 foreign tech workers within the last year, according to a new report from the Technology Councils of North America and Canada’s Tech Network.
I cannot say for how it is for other companies, but for the tech company I work for it was the immigration and visa mess that pushed us to move all of our operations from the US to Canada. These are not call center jobs either, they are good high paying development jobs, from our architects to junior developers.
The United States has made it too hard and slow to get the visas we need to conduct business. We sell our software online, we have customers all around the world. When we need to get the right employees and customers in one location to meet, we can do that in Canada. The United States, starting around 2016 and getting worse from then, there just became too many random work permit denials and extra hoops to jump through.
Interesting, it’s not the first time I’ve heard this. There an Ottawa office that hosts a few examples of this for an American company I know of.
Ottawa (kanata) is like the landing zone for American tech shops sourcing people into the Eastern time zone for NYC and Washington. There are SO MANY familiar logos up by March and TerryFox .