"Corporate reports that are basically advertising" mislead policymakers on tech jobs
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-08-20
Follow-up to the CBRE critique: these "corporate reports that are basically advertising" are not done to an academic standard — they're written to get media attention. Policymakers need to be very careful using this misleading data; Calgary's tech jobs did not grow 56% in one year.
Related event: CBRE Tech Employment Report Criticized for Flawed Methodology(2 posts)→
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