Theme : global_competition
- The McKinsey Quarterly: Sizing the emerging global labor market Useful McKinsey Study. Finds: Some occupations also are more amenable than others to remote employment. The most amenable to it are engineering, on the one hand, and finance and accounting, on the other (52 percent and 31 percent, respectively) Concludes: In practice, just a small fraction of the jobs that could go offshore actually will. Today, around 565,000 service jobs in the eight sectors we evaluated have been offshored to low-wage countries. By 2008, that number will grow to 1,200,000.' from : duncanoleary 22nd February 2007