Crunchbase, the tech industry cut 234,000 workers last year and 94,000 since January. Colangelo said a company like John Deere, long-known for farm equipment, has incorporated a fair amount of software and other technology into its tractors and therefore needs to hire tech talent to discern the data it's collecting. Companies that are getting access to the best talent are hiring across time zones but setting work hours within a range to keep projects in order with a team spread thousands of miles apart