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Gonna start seeing government workers scrambling to the private sector.
This is basically Amazon’s strategy for talent acquisition for their new HQ in the NoVA.
Survey: DC area IT workers ready to jump ship for Amazon
Written by Tajha Chappellet-Lanier
Jan 10, 2019 | FEDSCOOP
Seventy-one percent of IT workers in the Washington, D.C., metro area say they’d consider leaving their current work for a job with Amazon’s incoming HQ2.
This finding is among the results of an online survey conducted on behalf of Arlington, Va.-based Eagle Hill Consulting. The study found that it’s not only IT workers who would consider the change — 51 percent of the whole D.C. area workforce also said they’d think about it.
The main reason employees would jump ship? A better salary. More than two-thirds said the financial aspect would be what would drive them to consider work at Amazon...
https://www.fedscoop.com/survey-dc-area-workers-ready-jump-ship-amazon/