I was speaking with a writer from the Globe & Mail today about the future of office. We were half talking about a new AAA strata office building — called Capital Point — that we (Slate) are in the midst of launching in the Metrotown… Read More
All posts tagged “labor markets”
The rise of tech outposts
What happens when wages and real estate prices become too high in a city? Companies start growing in lower cost locations. We’ve all seen this before. Fred Wilson recently blogged about this “spillover effect”, citing a New York Times article talking about the growth of tech offices… Read More
Technology is eating the world
https://500px.com/embed.js Earlier today the comment section of an old post I wrote about UberX was revived with a discussion around technology and what it means for human capital. The concern expressed was that technology and machines are going to put us all out of a… Read More
Cities with the most single men and women
There are thousands of people who read this blog via email or by following on Tumblr. The rest of the readership just stops by on the web and visits periodically. But of the thousands of regular readers, I know that many do not click through… Read More