Oluyomi Ola-David Insights

The great resignation trends in the domestic environment may be a signal that the orientation of labour and global market landscape is changing. Also, development managers need to be bothered about the rising rate of international migration of highly skilled workers from developing countries of the Global South to more family-friendly countries in the Global North. In recent years, IOM reports affirm that international movement of skilled migrants from developing countries, with unfavourable local economic environment and inadequate social security, are directed towards many of the world's most family-friendly countries in the Global North, Europe, Nordic and Canada. On one hand, the promise of remittance flows from international migrants may count as potential gains to their home countries. However, in the short to medium term, human capital losses to the originating countries may be retrogressive for local development. Employers can and should become more proactive and adopt sust

Most of the world's human activities can be broadly categorised into the tripartite forms of: productive work, reproductive work, and destructive work. Productive work contributes to the global basket of goods and services which enhance the well being of all people, places, plants and animals. Reproductive and care work builds the global stock of human resources needed to produce a variety of economic and non-economic activities that can sustain the peace and prosperity of the global economy. Destructive work constitute a gamut of bads, perspectives, and activities (including but not limited to: negativism, conflicts, violence and violation of humanity) that disrupt and diminish global capability to carry on peaceful, value-creating and welfare-promoting work. As we celebrate the 2021 International Labour Day, let us advance our capacity to do more productive, reproductive and care work while we earnestly seek to eradicate all commitments to destructive work, for the peace and shar