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The Gulf's next major hiring wave is building in a country the labour market often overlooks: Oman. Under Vision 2040, the Sultanate is executing a deliberate economic transformation - the Duqm special economic zone, expanded ports at Salalah and Sohar, tourism corridors, renewable energy projects and logistics infrastructure linking the Gulf to the Indian Ocean. Each pillar is a workforce...

Europe is running out of workers - structurally, mathematically, unavoidably. Ageing populations and shrinking domestic workforces have left the continent short of millions of hands across construction, care, hospitality, logistics and agriculture. And a striking pattern is emerging in how the gap is being filled: workers who built their skills in the Gulf are increasingly building their next chapter in...

Few migration stories of the past five years ran as fast as the UK's care worker route. Opened wide in 2022 to rescue a collapsing social care sector, the Health and Care Worker visa brought hundreds of thousands of workers - many from India, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and the Philippines - into British care homes. Then came the reset: rule changes...

When Kenya and Saudi Arabia signed a labour cooperation deal covering the welfare of more than 350,000 Kenyan workers, it formalised something the Gulf job market already knew: East Africa has become one of the region's most important talent sources. Nairobi's own government has relaunched its Kazi Majuu initiative, recruiting thousands of construction and transport workers for Gulf placements in...