Promised Land
“Promised Land”– a cartoon that illustrates the challenges of finding and retaining great talent in the quantum computing industry.
According to Boston Consulting Group, Quantum computing will drive over $800 Billion in value in the next thirty years.
Realizing this potential requires the creation of a quantum workforce, which has historically only resided in narrow fields of physics in academia.
To this point, MIT Professor William Oliver declared “a lack of available quantum scientists and engineers may be an inhibitor of the technology’s growth.”
To address this, some companies are creating education programs to attract mid-career engineers and scholarship programs to attract minorities.
Meanwhile, other recruiters are pursuing the high reputation and salary cost of poaching engineers from incumbent players.
