As per the CEO of the globe’s biggest advertising organization—which, on its payroll, has 140,000 workers, across 2,400 bureaus in 107 nations– Britain & the US require trained aliens, in good numbers, to offer workers for the different segments of the national economy even as the same covers the technology segment.

He added that the British groups are battling problems in gaining permits for the qualified global employees required by them. He further said that despite the fact that hiring from nations inside the European Union (EU) is comparatively not too difficult, ushering-in well trained manpower from outside the area is.

UK, US destroyed by immigration curbs

He continued that these nations are being devastated by their preventive immigration programs—more so in the IT domain even as immigrants bring along the much required professionalism, besides talent, to the field. As if to drive the message home, he proclaimed that a research of 34 start-up firms in a specific region of the capital (wherein a significant section of the IT segment is placed) had discovered that the capitalists/industrialists with overseas roots were behind the establishment of as much as one-fourth of the companies.

The advertising boss added that study revealed that, in the US, 25% of all technology & engineering groups—established from 2006 to 2012–had not less than one overseas-born creator even while the firms in question had earnings of $63 billion in 2012 & hired 560,000 persons.

US in grip of skills scarcity

He also issued a warning that, in the absence of alien-workers, the US faces a severe skills deficiency, adding that by 2020 though the national organizations will need 120,000 computer science graduates per annum, the American universities will hardly produce 60,000 such graduates on a yearly basis.