Thirty years of workforce analysis was written by people with a position in the outcome. We took no vendor fee, ran the numbers ourselves, and published the method alongside the finding.
Read the 2026 Report →For three decades labor arbitrage rested on one assumption: somewhere, there is always cheaper labor. Across eleven delivery geographies and 4.2 million employment records, that assumption no longer survives contact with the data.
Fully loaded replacement cost now exceeds the nominal wage gap in four of eleven geographies studied.
Capability migrated on a different curve than transaction work, and the receiving markets repriced accordingly.
Fertility decline, not policy preference, sets the limit in fourteen of the twenty largest economies.
Diagnostic, target operating model, and sequencing for ministries of labor, finance, and education.
Location strategy and the honest total cost of distributed delivery for multinational employers.
Country assessments built on employment microdata rather than survey sentiment.