Labour Market Studies
Today’s global workforce is on the move as never before. But most employers and governments are a long way from fully understanding the complex issue of talent mobility and its growing role in the talent shortages that are affecting today’s global labor markets.
The Borderless Workforce
Survey Report: Manpower surveyed over 28,000 employers across 27 countries and territories in late July 2007. The survey focused on two key areas; the first was to determine the impact on the labor market from talent leaving their home country to go and work in another country and the second was to determine the extent to which companies are utilizing foreign talent to fill positions where they are experiencing skill shortages.
The Borderless Workforce Survey: Global Results
Expansion of the global services sector worldwide has been unprecedented,driven by growing per capita incomes,advances in information and telecommunications technologies, emergence of global production networks and exponential growth of offshore outsourcing. Some analysts predict that by 2020, services will account for 50% of world trade.
The Agenda for the New Service Workforce
The talent shortage can no longer be viewed as a crisis on the horizon. In many regions and across many industry sectors, it is a crisis that is occurring now, and it threatens to grow more acute and widespread. Talent shortages pose a threat to world economic growth and prosperity. Yet, although many of the problems associated with the talent shortage are broadly acknowledged,potential solutions have yet to be widely embraced or implemented by the companies, governments and individuals who stand to benefit from their application.
Confronting the Talent Crunch: 2008