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Workers more willing to move job and country, research indicates

by Ray Clancy on July 6, 2011

More seek jobs overseas

More than a quarter of the global workforce in many countries is willing to move to another country to find better employment, new research by leading employee engagement researchers reveals.

Central and Southern America look set to be the hardest hit of the markets, according to the GfK International Employee Engagement Study. Nearly six in 10 Mexican employees, 57%, half of Colombia’s workforce, 52%, and two fifths of staff in Brazil and Peru, 41% and 38% respectively, are ready to look across borders for better careers. [click to continue…]

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