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Hang on, you're arguing the skills shortage is because salaries are not high enough... ...and at the same time also arguing that the skills shortage is because
by adwww 6y ago
Hang on, you're arguing the skills shortage is because salaries are not high enough...
...and at the same time also arguing that the skills shortage is because big companies are offshoring jobs overseas to reduce their high salaries?
- gpderetta 6y agoAnother way of saying it, there is shortage at the price point the most companies are currently willing to pay. Mind you, the rest of Europe pays even less, but now UK is less attractive for an European to move in.
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoI don't see how these are contradictory. If you're not getting paid enough, you're more likely to leave. If companies aren't hiring as many people locally, you're also more likely to want to go and find work elsewhere.
- adwww 6y ago> you're more likely to leave Where to? Only America pays more, assuming you can get a visa, and while UAE taxes less the lifestyle there has fairly limited appeal.
- unishark 6y agoIt makes sense that high taxes can simultaneously cause both those problems (the cost of employees goes up a lot even as salaries don't go up enough to attract workers yet), though the way they stated it was rather nonlinear.
- Nextgrid 6y agoI don't think this is the same as offshoring/outsourcing to the lowest bidder which obviously gives you very low quality work. This kind of offshoring works for both sides because they are offshoring to a location where the supplier (developer, etc) ends up better off (they lose less money to tax for example) and thus still provide quality work. Overall, in this case, everyone wins, except the greedy & short-sighted UK government, which I can't really sympathize with.