Economics
There’s a Surprise Leader in Canada’s Race for Smart Global Jobs
- Quebec accounts for 42% of national labor force growth in 2016
- GSOFT, Ubisoft, Breather among companies adding positions
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When there’s a skateboard ramp in your office, and an in-house barista to serve you coffee in between coding tasks, chances are you’re in California. Unless, of course, it’s Quebec.
Simon De Baene is installing the Silicon Valley perks at his Montreal-based software company GSOFT, which expanded its workforce by 60 percent in the past year, with more to come. That’s just one example of the mini-boom that’s vaulted Quebec, long seen as Canada’s economic laggard, to the top of the country’s job-creation league.