Analysis Of 'The Other Tech Bubble'

In “The Other Tech Bubble” UW professor Margaret O’Mara discusses that more and more tech companies moved to suburbs, and then moved back into city as we have been stepped into a new era of information development. In addition, Mara states that some companies would like to make the urban as their headquarters in today’s world. Moreover, Mara specifically describes that the drawbacks and benefit for the tech companies built headquarters in urban areas.
According to Mara, there are some negative impact if the headquarter of a company was built in the city. Firstly, there are serious burden on public transport when more and more company built their headquarters in the center of urban areas. Moreover, Mara explain this by taking “Amazon” as an example. Actually, according to Mara, a large number of workers at Amazon had already made traffic of Seattle chaos, …show more content…
Firstly, public facilities of cities are extremely complete. Mara says that there are great number of food court, fitness center can be found in the vicinity of the companies. Therefore, companies can reduce the costs for creating private facilities, and saving the space of company. Secondly, the company established in the city to attract more and more young talent. Mara analyzes that young science and technology talents would like to live near the city, and they also want to not work far away from where they living. Additionally, Mara says that young could not be forever for tech employees, it is convenient for workers to send their children to the nearby school when a company was built in the urban areas. Thirdly, the city has diversified and modern features. Mara goes on to say that tech talents can meet more people, and mingle with various people that prompt them innovation capacity. Furthermore, Mara states that different people can be mixed to create greater influence, and