But this growth continues, Jiménez emphasizes, since Latin America is the region with the largest number of companies that employ abroad, followed by Asia Pacific. “At the regional level, Mexico is the third country with the highest increase in organizations that hired global talent in the last six months, after Uruguay and Argentina.”
In addition, the second report shows that Mexican remote workers benefited from a 108% increase in their salaries in the first half of 2022, which placed the country in eighth place in salary increases and in third place in income growth. , after Brazil and Argentina.
Mexico, hotbed of talent and new business
Pepe Villatoro, Deel’s regional expansion manager for Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and Spain, assures that Mexico has a much larger technology industry than the country’s own citizens sometimes recognize.
“Mexico is the third largest exporter of information technology services, Venture Capital in the country grew 5X the amount invested in the last year and that has generated a growth in technology companies that are a hotbed of talent. In addition, it has the largest economy in the world as a neighbor, so due to business expansion and commercial strategy issues, Mexican companies are hiring talent from Latin America, the United States and Spain, ”he details.
In contrast, foreign companies that hire Mexican talent are mainly in the United States, Canada, Chile, the United Kingdom, and Colombia. The most sought-after professions to work remotely from Mexico are engineers, software developers, statisticians, and online professors.
According to the report, 86% of the Mexican talent requested by foreign companies is between 25 and 44 years oldY the positions with the best salaries They are QA Engineer, Customer Service and Support, Recruitment and Marketing.
“It is a global competition for technological profiles. The democratization of opportunities means that the best salaries are no longer only in Silicon Valley; Mexicans are also finding better offers in countries in the region, without the need to move,” says Villatoro.
Although the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare calculates that in Mexico there are around 13 million people who are able to do home officeJulieta Manzano, consultant and commercial director of Mercer and author of the book Designers of the future, redrawing the world of workrefers that only 9% of the working population in the country is under this modality.
This is a red flag for companies, since the experts consulted agree that flexibility and autonomy are the key to attracting and retaining the best talent, since not all professionals are willing to spend more than two hours in the city traffic to get to the office or to increase your quality of life.