tombombadil
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Yes, that's my first thought as well. It's going to be more of a hindrance than a boon, at least in terms of hiring foreign talent.I haven't read the article yet but this part is not going to be how it plays out I think. One of my wife's nieces is a software developer and works in AI. He's Egyptian, educated in Egypt and currently works for a tech start-up in London. I know the UK had one of the most difficult visa application processes in Europe anyway but his application process was tortuous and his company essentially had to prove that there was both nobody in the UK or the EU who could do the same job first. All in all, I think the company spent about £10k pushing his application through. That would have been the same for an American, Ugandan or Japanese developer.
Last time I was speaking to him, he said there's someone joining the team from a non European country who has gone through a much cheaper and less strenuous process to get the work visa starting next year.
Unless the pound drops significantly in value, I don't think its going to be much more difficult to hire tech talent.
In healthcare on the other hand, where the salaries are not as generous, we're already seeing an exodus of some of our Italian/Spanish/Portugese nurses. Which loses us valuable and excellent colleagues.
Well I'm sorry to hear about your medical colleagues. The NHS is going to suffer.