The High cost of low cost labor

Nothing gets me and makes me sad at the time as a manager as seeing low skilled labor trying to do a job that requires a professional training.

In the gulf region where I work now, companies are notorious for hiring low-skilled labor; cheap labor fills the street of these countries. Most of these companies are run by managers or owners who have very shot vision of the future, they hire low paid labor to save money but the final results are always disastrous. This kind of labor can’t do the job and the companies end up losing business and paying more for the job that was not done right from the first time.

Besides the low quality of work produced by this type of labor, the cost to the local economy is tremendous in the form of bad infrastructure and low quality goods and services.

Hiring the right skilled labor may cost more to start with, but on the long run, the benefits for the company are great in the forms of high quality work and good reputation in the market.