Sir, – Many seasoned veterans of the tech industry will smile wryly on reading Liz Carolan’s article “‘It’s time to move on’: Unease is growing among my friends in the tech sector” (Opinion & Analysis, April 2nd).
How curious that, after years of willingly enabling and espousing the virtues of “moving fast and breaking things,” (and enjoying the results), many citizens of the tech empire now suffer an attack of itchy feet. The very industry that once hectored the rest of us about relentless innovation, risk-taking, and rewriting the rules of a work-life experience is now experiencing a shifting of priorities, and reassessment of what it all means.
For years, these companies championed change – not just in technology, but in social values. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) were not merely policies but a battle cry and lifestyle, and the virtues of remote work, flexible employment, and boundary-pushing workplace cultures were presented as our future.
Yet now, as the very generation that fuelled this transformation inches closer to age 45, the so-called change makers have been exposed as having little real interest in bringing about real diversity, equity, or inclusion at all.
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What an irony in watching the same individuals who once reshaped employment expectations now second guess their place in a toxic tech ecosystem they created.
A Pauline conversion might have been the harbinger of an era where disruption is not the goal, but sustainability.
Instead, it remains one of self-interest and greed. Look at the carnage.
Who can have sympathy for such types? – Yours, etc,
ULTAN Ó BROIN,
Blackrock,
Co Dublin.
