From the Wall Street Journal
March 7, 2008
In Silicon Valley, a Flight to Safety
By Pui-Wing Tam
As the dot-com bust gave way to revival, many Silicon Valley engineers left large companies to join start-ups, drawn by excitement and the promise of fat payouts. Last month, Ameet Kher headed in the other direction....
..."Right now, people can still move to safer jobs. There isn't a complete job freeze as there was" in the dot-com bust, says AnnaLee Saxenian, who has studied the Silicon Valley labor market and is dean of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley....