Although San Francisco has struggled lately, there is hope that artificial intelligence will help it recover in time for a third Gold Rush.
Although not all of the issues facing the famed tech hub were caused by its strict and protracted COVID-19 lockdowns, which led the city’s tech-heavy workforce to immediately begin working remotely.
During the epidemic, Sf.citi, a 2012-founded organization that promotes San Francisco tech companies, started tracking what it called San Francisco’s tech migration.
The group stated on its website that several of the factors influencing this phenomenon—remote work and the expanding appeal of places outside of San Francisco—predate 2020 in its most recent research on the subject, which was published in March 2022.
But few would contest that these changes have intensified as a result of the outbreak. What we’re witnessing right now is nothing less than a mass exodus of tech firms and workers from the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Sf.citi noted that San Francisco is the most expensive city in the US and criticized the progressive city’s three significant tax increases on the tech and business community in just 2020.
In 2021, the Bay Area’s proportion of venture capital investments fell to its lowest point in more than a decade.
Undoubtedly, some tech firms fled alongside those in other sectors. One city that has benefited is Austin, Texas. Miami, Florida, too.
Nevertheless, the city and county now have a lot more tech jobs than they did at the beginning of the pandemic, claims Ted Egan, San Francisco’s chief economist.
He claims that the problem is not that tech has left, but rather that businesses have closed their locations and employees have left homes close to their former employers. Additionally, it’s possible that AI is encouraging San Francisco tech companies to rehire.
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Source: www.msn.com