Is Technology making Rural-urban migration in The Gambia irrelevant? A cause of Labour turnover is the massive movement of people from rural Gambia to urban Gambia, not only are they moving but with many businesses—taking jobs with them. Now businesses can operate anywhere; thanks to the ubiquity of internet and other cheap convenient forms of instantaneous communications. For example a supermarket or restaurant in Sabah Sanjah can employ the service of NwebPlus—a software development firm located in Kanifing—to develop a software that does post-sales and analysis reporting for management without leaving the office. Companies/organizations located anywhere in the country can post openings/vacancies or advertise their brand (or search a list of resumes for a suitable candidate) on Gamjobs.com—the Gambia’s No.1 social job website, without moving an inch. Technology is opening up marvelous opportunities making it possible to ‘telecommute’ to work with colleagues hundreds of kilometers away without leaving your home. It is a exaggeration to say that technology is making Rural-urban migration in The Gambia irrelevant but Technology is making Rural-urban migration less and less a limiting factor.
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Simon F Mendy is a social media intern with Gamjobs.com. He is an IT enthusiast who love writing and keep his readers always on the loop of latest happening around jobs and employment in the Gambia. Simon held a Bsc in computer science and mathematics from the university of The Gambia. He has strong interest in object oriented Software development process, especially using .Net and Java based technologies. You can follow him: https://www.facebook.com/simon.mendy.12