{"id":4579,"date":"2026-05-28T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=4579"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:56:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:56:47","slug":"employers-move-work-abroad-as-young-struggle-for-jobs-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/?p=4579","title":{"rendered":"Employers move work abroad as young struggle for jobs \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alan-Milburn-BBC.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195784 lazyload\"\/><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"907\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alan-Milburn-BBC.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-195784 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alan-Milburn-BBC.png 907w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alan-Milburn-BBC-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alan-Milburn-BBC-768x503.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Alan-Milburn-BBC-600x393.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 907px) 100vw, 907px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Alan Milburn: report on youth unemployment<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Businesses are increasingly moving jobs offshore in response to a rises in the cost of employing workers in the UK, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">One recruitment firm, The Legends Agency which is focused on South Africa, recorded a 300% increase in offshored roles in April 2026, compared with the same month last year, following the introduction of the latest minimum wage increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The latest figure emerged as a new report by Alan Milburn found the number of young people in the UK not in employment, education or training could hit 1.25m by the early 2030s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The strongest demand for offshore hiring is currently in sales and business development, which accounts for 21% of roles, followed by customer support at 12%, administration and executive assistance at 10%, design at 9%, marketing at 7%, finance and accounting at 7%, and technology and engineering at 6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Legends Agency says it is also seeing increased interest from sectors not traditionally associated with offshoring, including legal services, healthcare, and back office construction and hospitality roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The firm supports UK businesses with hiring remote teams in South Africa, where salaries and the cost of living are significantly lower, helping companies save close to 50% on employment costs. Its clients range from multinationals to small startups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Group CEO of The Legends Agency, Alex Fenton said: \u201cWhile I welcome the minimum wage hike, ministers also need to be honest about the pressure it adds to employers already dealing with higher National Insurance, weak growth and AI-driven disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe danger is that the very roles young people rely on to get a foot on the career ladder \u2014 in sales, customer service, admin, marketing and finance \u2014 are the roles most likely to move overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the Government wants better-paid jobs in Britain, it also has to make it easier and more affordable for businesses to create those jobs here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.5) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Employers #move #work #young #struggle #jobs #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Milburn: report on youth unemployment Businesses are increasingly moving jobs offshore in response to a rises in the cost of employing workers in the UK, according to new research.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[6984,283,282,4798,430,233,6985,6988,6986,1105,1822,6987],"class_list":["post-4579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-stories","tag-alan-milburn","tag-business","tag-daily","tag-employers","tag-jobs","tag-move","tag-offshoring","tag-struggle","tag-the-legends-agency","tag-work","tag-young","tag-youth-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fintechpulse8.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}