More U.S.-based workers are leaving the country for what they see as greener — and less office-bound — pastures abroad.
Over the last five years, the share of employees who have left their jobs in the U.S. to work abroad has more than doubled, climbing from 2.7% at the end of 2021 to 6% by the end of 2025, according to a recent study from workforce intelligence company Revelio.
That data includes both U.S.- and foreign-born workers, encompassing those employed by a non-U.S. company as well as those working remotely for an American company.
I would assume it is the best & brightest that easily find greener pastures abroad.
Talent used to flow to the USA. Is this a blip or a new trend of exiting talent.
You wonder how much of this is immigration reform, ICE, immigrants no longer welcome, difficulty getting visas, declining govt research funding, and massive layoffs in the tech sector. The leading edge of AI.
I have been following the potential for ‘brain drain’ from the U.S. ever since doge summarily terminated my nephew’s team of post docs working on genetic and drug solutions to various diseases that destroy food crops. Here is one take:
We are now a country openly hostile to science, openly hostile to education, openly hostile to actually knowing something. Being an expert is now considered a bad thing. None of this is good.
One of my sisters has a close friend who is an executive talent trainer. She left to work out of London about five years ago. She is in the US every other month. She is doing well.
