Swimming in the Global Talent Pool
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| When he was a 16-year-old student, Jeff Kiiza would never have
| imagined that 10 years later he?d be writing code in Perl,
| PHP/MySQL and AJAX for companies in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Spain
| -- and that he'd be doing it from his home in Cordoba, Argentina. "Back
| then, it would have been a dream or science fiction," he says. "But
| the availability of greater free-flowing bandwidth and companies
| turning to the Internet have allowed it"
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| Companies such as MySQL AB don?t care where employees live; they
| hire for raw talent. The open-source software maker's 320 employees
| reside in 25 countries, and 70% of them work from home, according to
| Steve Curry, director of corporate communications at MySQL.
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