Falling Stock Prices Make It Harder for Big Tech to Lure Talent

  • Return-to-office plans also threaten to alienate employees
  • Stock slump has made workers easier for startups to poach
Google offices in New York.Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

For years, employees of Silicon Valley’s largest companies could count on one constant: a rising share price. That brought financial gains that made their jobs difficult to leave, even as their companies went through the wringer over privacy, antitrust and other contentious issues.

But not anymore.