7 April, 2020 – It’s the talk of the town… The current crisis would bring back the services jobs that companies have far-shored for the last 2 decades. Nearshoring will gain a bit of momentum, indeed. But given the wage cost differences with far-shoring and the nature of the work… Continue Reading Covid-19/Reshoring shared services?

Ever since offshoring and near-shoring took ground, a typical boardroom comment has been that wage escalations will eradicate the option to leverage on wage cost arbitrage. Well, it’s been 20 years since I first heard this comment about Prague. Today the Czech capital still offers wages significantly below Western European… Continue Reading Boardroom hypes (1) – Wage escalation