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by _trampeltier 3 days ago
The question is not wrong, but the answer is. Here in Switzerlands middle land, the streets and trains are very crowded, not just during peek hours. On the other hand, it's already now hard to find people for almost any kind of work.
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lifestyleguru 3 days ago
I think they suffer from universal problem that the job doesn't pay for housing anywhere within reasonable commute to the job, assuming that it's even possible to rent any housing at all.
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latency-guy2 3 days ago
> On the other hand, it's already now hard to find people for almost any kind of work.

Why is it hard? Can't find a pick from the ~3% unemployment rate? That's approx 100-200k people, are you sure you can't find a person in that selection?

Maybe you're asking a bit much for standards that you are weakly attempting at a defense or justification.

This argument without any other qualifications reads to me as whinging that you're not getting everything you want. So lower your standards, offer more pay, or just move to a different country.

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sltkr 3 days ago
Interesting that you're downvoted for pointing this out. Lots of people in Switzerland are struggling to find jobs, but no, they're all unfit, and we must import more immigrants.

Then of course those immigrants are laid off and contribute to the unemployment number, and rather than hiring them back, people will say we should import even more immigrants, and so on.

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jason-johnson 3 days ago
When ever anyone says they can't find workers, at the end of the sentence there is always an implicit "for the compensation I'm offering".
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_trampeltier 3 days ago
Yes and no. Thats also a kind of problem in Switzerland. The social system is so good, you can have a pretty good life without working. One one side, thats a good thing, on the other side, for some people, even young people, they say thats enough for me, and never start to work.
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sltkr 3 days ago
> On the other hand, it's already now hard to find people for almost any kind of work.

Lots of people in Switzerland are struggling to find jobs, especially in the tech sector after mass layoffs and outsourcing.

If you're looking to hire a full-stack software engineer in Switzerland, send me a message! But I bet you won't, because there isn't actually an abundance of jobs in Switzerland.

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