Orion Hindawi

In 2019, Hindawi and his family left the San Francisco Bay Area for Seattle’s Laurelhurst neighborhood, bringing his $9 billion cybersecurity company to the region along with him. The pandemic is dramatically shifting work styles. There’s more fluidity to the labor market, especially among tech workers who can plug in from anywhere, as long as there’s solid broadband. That fluidity is what led Tanium to shift to a work-from-anywhere policy last year, and why Hindawi moved to Washington state. As a result of that policy, more than half of the company’s 500 Bay Area employees left. Hindawi said it “was like we opened the jail doors.”