![]() Businesses are running out of (good) jobs to outsource, but we can still outsource the crappy ones eh! By 2016 almost 1.1 million IT jobs will have been sent offshore by 4,700 companies with annual revenue over $1 billion headquartered in the U.S. and Europe. In the U.S. advanced industry labour areas have plunged 61% in 33 years from 1980 to 2013 (top of chart mashup). Canada's labour cost (2nd chart in the mashup) is running +/- 20% higher than Mexico's and the top source countries for importing labour into Canada are the Philippines, followed by Mexico, the United States, India and Jamaica. Notice the plunge in Canadian labour costs in 2012 as foreign workers become more appealing as hires. Let's look at some bullet points and their sources:The U.S. advanced industry platform has thinned out substantially and inordinately, so that less than half as many large metro areas have the density of advanced industry activity that they had in 1980. That means that on balance many fewer U.S. metropolitan areas now have the dense supplier bases and deep pools of technically relevant workers necessary to support new advanced industry growth. By 2016, corporations in the U.S. and Europe are expected to move an additional 750,000 business services jobs to low-cost geographies. This would bring the total of offshored jobs in finance, procurement, HR, and IT to 2.3 million – or one third of all jobs in these areas. The snapshot view (bottom panel on the chart mashup above) on December 1st 2012 shows that there were 338,221 Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada, up 235% from 101,078 on December 1st, 2002. But the calendar view shows that the number of temporary foreign workers grew from 181,794 in 2002 to 491,547 in 2012 (170% increase); although a double count could occur if a short-term worker returns home and then comes back for another temporary position, but it does reflect the growing number of temporary workers who are in Canada for more than a year. Hypothesis 1. Comments are closed.
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"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement; and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense
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