A wave of tech workers has trekked to Nashville during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A Bloomberg analysis of LinkedIn data shows that Greater Nashville attracted the second-largest net gain of tech talent in the U.S. from May 2020 to April 2021. It amounted to a net inflow of 155 software and information technology workers per 10,000 existing tech company workers.
The only market with larger net migration: Austin, which added 217 new tech workers per 10,000 existing ones.
Nashville outpaced cities such as Charlotte, Miami, Denver, Seattle and Dallas, as well as the Florida markets of Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami and Orlando. That momentum appears poised to continue with Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) and NTT Data opening downtown tech hubs and Oracle Corp. (NYSE: ORCL) building a $1.2 billion riverfront campus. The Greater Nashville Technology Council is investing to keep the growth coming, with a new marketing campaign targeting tech workers in six cities.
Bloomberg’s analysis compares the “35 metropolitan areas with gross tech migration of at least 2,000 LinkedIn users in the past 12 months.”
Gains in those markets came chiefly at the expense of San Francisco, Boston and Chicago, according to LinkedIn data. As Bloomberg notes: “There’s no telling whether many of those moves will prove permanent, especially as the pandemic wanes in the U.S. and many companies eye a return to the office.”
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