- The report warns that a university degree no longer guarantees qualified work in the current global economy of AI
- Distant jobs, formerly considered to offer freedom, now trapping professionals in digital underside cycles
- Intermediate level professionals take parallel concerts to survive while technological roles remain out of reach
The global labor market undergoes a deep transformation as a distance work, economic disparities and trends in the use of digital labor migration across borders.
A new survey carried out by Global Work IA has now revealed that underemployment is no longer limited to local economies or immigrant populations – it is rather propagated in the global remote labor landscape, where the level of education no longer guarantees professional relevance or economic security.
After analyzing the data of more than 5 million users, the platform found that “qualified specialists are actively looking for unskilled jobs”, including roles in data entry, customer service and assistant positions, even if 62.75% of job seekers completed higher education.
The paradox of qualifying on a globalized labor market
Demographic data show that women represent more than 70% of users on the platform, while men represent a little less than 30%, and millennials and late zoomers (aged 25 to 40) include almost two thirds of all job seekers.
The majority of users are intermediate professionals, which represents 30.37%, compared to 7.38% of junior staff and only 3.47% of managers.
“Intermediate level specialists are among the most vulnerable employees,” notes the report, adding that recent layoffs have pushed a lot to parallel concerts and projects based on projects to maintain their income.
The report also stresses that the possibilities of remote work have fueled the migration of digital work, in particular emerging economies with richer nations.
Professionals from countries like Nigeria, India and the Philippines use their skills in English to ensure jobs in English -speaking countries, often winning much more than they would do at the national level.
For example, a highly experienced dentist in Nigeria could earn about $ 1,885 per month (or less than $ 400 in many cases), while data entry of data entry for an American company could pay more than $ 4,000.
However, this change is not uniform. HDI countries high like the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada generally show a preference for national distance roles.
On the other hand, the average countries of the HDI such as Mexico and Colombia have a strong interest in remote opportunities, but are largely concentrated in the internal markets.
Countries with a strong dominance of native language tend to have lower digital migration rates.
Even with access to the best job sites or CV manufacturers, many professionals are forced to demarcate their ambitions.
This trend raises critical questions about the future of work: what does skills mean in a globalized economy? Can professional skills titles alone protect themselves against systemic underemployment? And above all, what does this evolutionary landscape mean for long -term career prospects?
