Profession 'will be outsourced' in 30 years

Professor Alan Blinder, a well-respected US economics professor from Princeton University, says that UK accountants and lawyers could find themselves outsourced over the next generation.

He claims that the dynamics of globalisation will mean that many professional jobs will, in time, be done more cost effectively when outsourced and that this will leaving many UK-based professionals, including lawyers and accountants, redundant before their careers end.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Professor Blinder said: 'Lawyers involved in family disputes, and criminal lawyers - they've got to stay around. But lawyers that write contracts, and lots of accountants; maybe that kind of education is not such a fabulous idea. Educating people to go into what I call the personal services is a good idea - some of which don't require all that much education - so electricians, carpenters, plumbers, roofers - skilled trades.”

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[read the Telegraph article]

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