Originally posted by mattster
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Originally posted by jayn200 View PostHate crap like this. Just let capitalism do it's thing. If there is a real shortage let the wages increase organically which will incentive more people to start training in the area, people with tech skills who have left the industry to come back, and companies to become more efficient/increase productivity.
I am always sceptical about reports saying there isn't enough I.T. labour etc. if you dig deep you often find the report is comissioned by someone who will have s direct or indirect benefit from importing I.T. resources from another country.
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
Did you not understand that the strange curly symbol at the end of my sentence implied it was a question? <== look there's another one. Maybe answer the question instead of having a tantrum.
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Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
Did I actually express a desire for anything in my post or did you just make that up ?
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Originally posted by _V_ View Post
I want a system that puts the health and well being of its citizens first. If you can convince me a big multinational that pays it's tax via offshore tax arrangements and hires the cheapest non-local people to perform the work is best for the UK, then lets support this great concept.
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Originally posted by AtW View Post“UK digital skills shortage risks Covid recovery as young people shun IT courses
Exclusive: Employers fear growing mismatch between rising demand for skills and falling supply of trained recruits
Britain’s economic recovery from Covid-19 is at threat from a looming digital skills crisis caused by a sharp fall in the number of young people taking IT courses, a report has said.
A study by the Learning and Work Institute found less than half of UK employers believed new entrants to the workforce were arriving with the necessary advanced digital skillset.
The mismatch between the rising demand for digital skills and the supply of sufficiently trained recruits was already costing the economy billions of pounds and the potentially “catastrophic” gap would widen over time without urgent action.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business...hun-it-courses
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A better paying profession than IT is legal profession where lawyers earn hundreds of pounds per hour
why don't they issue visas to bring in loads of lawyers from abroad
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Originally posted by _V_ View Post
I want a system that puts the health and well being of its citizens first. If you can convince me a big multinational that pays it's tax via offshore tax arrangements and hires the cheapest non-local people to perform the work is best for the UK, then lets support this great concept.
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
So you want capitalism in handcuffs, where employers are forced to hire locally even if they cost more and are worse?
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Originally posted by mattster View Post
That is the question - what do we want? Do we want a system that puts GDP of the nation above all else, even if this means importing cheap workers to get it done, or do we want a system that tries to employ as many citizens as possible, even if that is a suboptimal solution in terms of GDP growth?
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
So you want capitalism in handcuffs, where employers are forced to hire locally even if they cost more and are worse?
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Originally posted by d000hg View Post
So you want capitalism in handcuffs, where employers are forced to hire locally even if they cost more and are worse?
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Originally posted by TestMangler View Post
That's from the Enid Blyton book of Capitalism. In the real world, it means the granting of visas from other countries to fill the 'skills gap' and undercut anyone who's left.
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