In 2019 we had one of the highest net migration inflows per head of population, with 11.4 per 1000 people, compared to 2.4 per 1000 in Britain and 3.8 per 1000 in the United States. Businesses have benefited from this large growth in labour, and admitted as much during the conference’s morning tea break. Over danishes, croissants, bliss balls and coffee, directors confessed migrants on work visas sometimes made up the majority of their workers in areas like information technology. Now the migration tap has been turned off and those settings could stay this way for a significant period of time according to Spoonley.
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