The big tech co I work at has filled thousands of back office roles in UAE this year. Political neutrality + fundraising + tax advantages have pulled them away from US/Europe/Asia
Political neutrality? The UAE owns the biggest soccer club in England, and UK MPs do not dare criticize the country's policies anymore.
Perhaps you mean that companies are insulated from politics because they operate in a business-friendly dictatorship where the majority of residents are migrant workers with no rights. No unionization worries when you can just confiscate passports and delay payment of wages as needed.
> UK MPs do not dare criticize the country's policies anymore
We have to remember that the UK is not a real country. It does not have a real government. It's all Potemkinised. It's all for show. It's not real. It's not run by serious people. It's run for oligarchs and money launderers.
Besides, the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is now a massive 6 years in the past, so no-one is tweeting about it or shaming any Saudi-friendly folks publicly about it any more, so the startup CEOs can come and busk on the Riyadh street corners without fear of retribution.
It's basically just this. Dubai is a way to hire Indians without having to set up shop in India. Likewise, Singapore for the Chinese. And all of Canada.
Much of this immigration-driven offshoring or, shall I coin it, "glamorshoring" will stop or even reverse once H1B fraud is reduced in the next few years.
