Horrible commute is a boon to East Bay tech firms

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

The commute to Silicon Valley has gotten so bad that it is becoming a recruiting tool — for tech companies in Oakland and Berkeley.

When the Metropolitan Transportation Commission released its list of the Bay Area’s worst bottlenecks this month, it merely quantified what tech workers know too well: Most of the region’s worst commutes head either into or out of the biggest technology job centers in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

For tech workers who live in the East Bay, jobs on their side of the Bay Bridge come with one unbeatable perk.


“We’re a much more attractive option to anyone in the East Bay,” said Dane Holewinski, chief operating officer of Yozio, a startup near Oakland’s 19th Street BART Station — just a few stops from the tech hub in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood.

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