With immigration hawks on the rise, the bloc’s tech champions sound the alarm when it comes to recruiting expat workers.
The far right’s recent gains in Europe could be industry’s loss when it comes to recruiting skilled foreign workers.
Leading companies in industrial strongholds such as Germany and the Netherlands — active in areas such as microchip manufacturing — are increasingly worried that anti-immigration policies could make it harder for them to hire the expat workers they need to fill their many boom-driven vacancies.
The companies’ message: Don’t block our ability to tap foreign workers, or it will hamper growth.
Microchip manufacturing, essential for producing everything from cars to smartphones, is poised for rapid expansion in the next few years, especially in already established hubs in Europe, like the greater Eindhoven region in the Netherlands or Dresden in eastern Germany.
Companies in the sector claim that Europe’s demographics and young people’s study preferences mean they can’t rely solely on homegrown talent to meet their employment needs.
Is that what you said “no” to?
I was talking about the labor force needing to grow, you said “no” and then explained how the labor force needs to grow…
Which doesn’t make much sense, but I can’t figure out what else you may have meant.
Are you misreading me on purpose? The 400k people are needed to maintain the current workforce. Admittedly, my English is far from perfect, but as far as I know, “maintain” implies keeping something at a certain level.
From what I can tell, we’re saying the same thing
I just don’t know why you started with “no” if that’s the case…
The new bottom layer of the pyramid can come from natives having kids or immigrants.
But for capitalism to work, we need to keep adding a new bottom layer.
Again, no. It’s not about a bottom layer, it’s everything. It’s rather a side of a pyramid, if you want to stay in the picture.