Yeah this is essentially my take. I also think this report is drawing a fall equivalence between the impact of globalisation on manufacturing in the 1980s and i

Yeah this is essentially my take. I also think this report is drawing a fall equivalence between the impact of globalisation on manufacturing in the 1980s and in white collar roles now. Former can easily be moved abroad, eg steel production from Scotland to India. The latter involves splitting a high skill knowledge-based company across cultures, timezones etc. Most of what I've seen of this in IT has not been good. It's also not like our whole sector hasn't been theoretically offshorable for a decade or two either. The barriers from a pure labour point of view have been low for a long time. In other words, it could have happened en masse already but conspicuously hasn't.