Aren’t they economic migrants to the places that they go to?
mistake-learned on
Read the article cos i was curious for at least one example to which country moving- no answers obviously
Swimming_Map2412 on
Maybe they should pay us more then. I’d earn a lot more in mainland Europe, if I was younger I would be gone already.
mrafinch on
I lost my job in Norfolk in 2017 (remember Multiyork?) and despite being somewhat switched on, ready to learn, etc… no company in the country would employ me for more than min wage – even as a supervisor/dept. head.
I left for Europe. Have since been retrained and earn a decent wage…. Now The UK can’t afford me (my wife and I floated the idea of moving back) – I applied to a similar position for the company I work for now, just The UK arm of it. They advised me to stay where I am because the likelihood of The UK arm being able to invest in/train me was as good as 0%.
Sucks, but what are you gonna do
RaymondBumcheese on
This is always framed as a tax thing but people leave because, y’know, they don’t like it here.
I’m technically highly educated and (was) in a shortage field and I was all set to move to Sweden until Brexit happened and the job was withdrawn because this country is run by arseholes and there is no real will to change that. I just wanted a better quality of life and was happy to move somewhere I would actually have been taxed more
Dry_Acadia_9312 on
I’m seeing it already, lots of highly skilled people jumping ship, good amount went to Canada or Australia, many of my friends went to Europe, Sweden seemed popular. Also; noticed some heading to Asia too. Really talented people with difficult to replace skills.
Pen_dragons_pizza on
I don’t know why they are concerned, many have chosen cheap migrant workers for years now, what did they expect to happen.
That they mention the number of people leaving was the same as recent years but more than ‘before Covid’ and not ‘before Brexit’ is probably relevant as well.
Tax_pe3nguin on
Maybe incentivise people to stay? I dunno. Maybe a lucrative remuneration package and decent work life balance.
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Aren’t they economic migrants to the places that they go to?
Read the article cos i was curious for at least one example to which country moving- no answers obviously
Maybe they should pay us more then. I’d earn a lot more in mainland Europe, if I was younger I would be gone already.
I lost my job in Norfolk in 2017 (remember Multiyork?) and despite being somewhat switched on, ready to learn, etc… no company in the country would employ me for more than min wage – even as a supervisor/dept. head.
I left for Europe. Have since been retrained and earn a decent wage…. Now The UK can’t afford me (my wife and I floated the idea of moving back) – I applied to a similar position for the company I work for now, just The UK arm of it. They advised me to stay where I am because the likelihood of The UK arm being able to invest in/train me was as good as 0%.
Sucks, but what are you gonna do
This is always framed as a tax thing but people leave because, y’know, they don’t like it here.
I’m technically highly educated and (was) in a shortage field and I was all set to move to Sweden until Brexit happened and the job was withdrawn because this country is run by arseholes and there is no real will to change that. I just wanted a better quality of life and was happy to move somewhere I would actually have been taxed more
I’m seeing it already, lots of highly skilled people jumping ship, good amount went to Canada or Australia, many of my friends went to Europe, Sweden seemed popular. Also; noticed some heading to Asia too. Really talented people with difficult to replace skills.
I don’t know why they are concerned, many have chosen cheap migrant workers for years now, what did they expect to happen.
This is a problem they accelerated
so at an unspecified ‘investor panel’ the most discussed topic an entrepreneur with a gig economy app faced was when are you leaving the country with[ the largest percentage of self employed people in the developed world?](https://siteefy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Self-employed-workers-by-countries-2019-min.png)
That they mention the number of people leaving was the same as recent years but more than ‘before Covid’ and not ‘before Brexit’ is probably relevant as well.
Maybe incentivise people to stay? I dunno. Maybe a lucrative remuneration package and decent work life balance.
Just thinking out the box here.