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Briefing: Do Musk’s comments on a ‘permanent shortage of excellent talent’ resonate in the UK?

By 2025-01-22T09:00:00

talent shortage

It is common to bemoan the lack of talent in the technology sector, but does this result from a flawed approach to developing people pipelines?

The challenge of sourcing high quality talent in the tech sector became the issue de jour over the festive period.

On Christmas day 2024, billionaire tech chief executive Elon Musk tweeted: “There is a permanent shortage of excellent engineering talent. It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.”

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