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India is giving us the single most important data point in the basic global services-export <\/strong>and outsourcing industry: <\/strong>The combined headcount of Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Wipro, and HCL Technologies has fallen by over 42k people<\/a> across the last two years. TCS alone announced a 12k-person cut in 2025<\/a>, the biggest workforce reduction in its history. More than 7.7k Indian IT professionals<\/a> with fifteen-plus years of experience have been let go across the major Indian IT firms in this cycle, according to the staffing firm Xpheno.<\/p>\n

The detail that should spur us to action is that all of this is happening while revenue is <\/strong>growing at these companies.<\/strong> TCS reported its 12k-person cut in the same quarter that revenue rose 1.3% and HCL grew 8.1%<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The labor that used to be the product is being substituted away in real time.<\/strong> The labor-driven cost arbitrage that built a USD 250 bn export sector over 30 years has collapsed beneath it \u2014 or at least is transforming into something materially different. <\/p>\n

The substitute: A<\/strong>I.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This matters across MENA+ because India is arguably three to five years ahead of every <\/strong>services-export bet on our side of the Indian Ocean.<\/strong> The collective wagers we\u2019re seeing in Egypt, Morocco, and Jordan are, at their core, the Indian bet of 1995 dressed in newer language, with closer proximity to Europe, and with faster internet connectivity. And the countries most exposed are the ones least able to absorb a loss \u2014 none has the foreign-exchange cushion to lose their respective bets quietly.<\/p>\n

Egypt stands to lose the most<\/strong> \u2014 its offshoring sector hit USD 5.1 bn last year<\/a> (worth more than the Houthi-impaired Suez Canal) and is targeting USD 12 bn and 630k jobs by 2029. Morocco\u2019s USD 2.8 bn services-export sector<\/a> is built on a similar foundation, with IT outsourcing at 40% of exports and call-center work at another 37%, dominated by Concentrix-owned Webhelp\u2019s 10.5k-employee operation. The renewed Morocco Digital 2030 strategy<\/a> is now explicitly chasing 270k jobs and roughly USD 4 bn in services exports by 2030. Jordan is making a smaller version of the same bet under the Jordan Source<\/a> brand, with a tech sector of around 25k employees that the government wants to double by 2033.<\/p>\n

Jordan might sound like an outlier: <\/strong>Jordan\u2019s current sector is focused on Arabization \u2014 the practice of translating and adapting Western software and digital content into Arabic. Roughly 75% of all Arabic internet content<\/a> is generated by Jordanian firms, according to t he US Commerce Department\u2019s International Trade Administratio<\/a> n. <\/p>\n

And while it is a business line that once looked like a defensible cultural moat, it\u2019s not <\/strong>anymore<\/strong>. Translation, including to and from Arabic, is exactly the work AI is currently eating fastest. Independent industry benchmarks in 2025 already showed LLMs winning 9 of 11 language pairs<\/a> against dedicated translation engines, with Arabic explicitly identified as a language where models are now handling morphological complexity and dialect variation at production quality. Jordan\u2019s Arabic edge is now being undone by AI cheaply, anywhere, and at scale. <\/p>\n

The contrast with the UAE and Saudi Arabia tells us where the value is actually <\/strong>migrating, and it is the opposite end of the bet.<\/strong> The UAE has positioned itself at the frontier of capital and compute (we have more on how this bet is playing out in real time below) \u2014 a bet that countries without coffers as large can\u2019t match. Microsoft is still on track to invest USD 15.2 bn in the UAE<\/a> between 2023 and 2029, including a USD 1.5 bn equity stake in Abu Dhabi's G42 and over USD 4.6 bn in AI and cloud data center capacity. A consortium including Cisco, Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank is building Stargate UAE<\/a>, a 1-GW compute cluster that anchors a planned 5-GW US-UAE AI campus, the largest AI facility outside the United States. Saudi Arabia is making its own version of the same bet with PIF\u2019s USD 100 bn Alat tech-manufacturing platform and the USD 20 bn DataVolt-Supermicro AI data center deal in Neom<\/a>. <\/p>\n

These are not labor-arbitrage outsourcing bets, but demand-side bets<\/strong> on the infrastructure that will host the AI substitution everyone else is exposed to. <\/p>\n

Buyers of labor arbitrage are voting with their wallets: <\/strong>Klarna cut 700 customer service<\/a>positions<\/a> in 2023 and replaced them with an OpenAI-powered assistant that, within a month, was doing the work of all 700. By the 3Q 2025 earnings call<\/a>, the AI was doing the work of 853 agents and the company was on track to halve its overall headcount by next year. Capital markets have also voted: Teleperformance is down over 82% over five years<\/a>, Concentrix down over 84%<\/a>. These are not small French firms in trouble. They are the names ITIDA in Egypt, AMDIE in Morocco, and Intaj in Jordan that have been holding up as their trophies. The market is repricing the business process outsourcing model on the assumption that the Great Displacement is happening right now.<\/p>\n

The instinct, when one bet fails, is to make the same bet at a higher level of <\/strong>sophistication, and that is exactly the trap.<\/strong> The conversation across the region has already moved here: Climb the capability ladder out of voice BPO into engineering R&D, applied AI, specialized customer experience \u2014 what is \u201cStage 2\u201d and \u201cStage 3\u201d work of so-called \u201cglobal competency centers,\u201d in the language being used now. The decision-makers know something has shifted, but their response for now is to try to climb the ladder.<\/p>\n

Our take: That is the wrong instinct.<\/strong> Climbing the value chain assumes the chain itself is static \u2014 and it isn\u2019t. The same forces compressing voice BPO will likely compress engineering R&D, applied AI, and specialized customer experience on a slightly delayed timeline. Granted, this might come across as speculative, but here\u2019s what we know for certain: The technology that does the substituting moves faster than the workforces being asked to retrain into the next rung. We would be running up an escalator going the other way. <\/p>\n

The related hope is Jevons Paradox<\/strong> \u2014 that cheaper AI-driven services will expand the addressable market fast enough to absorb the labor being displaced, ultimately leaving the sector larger. It\u2019s possible, of course, but the early evidence runs uniformly the other way \u2014 see rising Indian revenue and falling headcount. See Klarna. Productivity is so far outrunning any growth in demand. Betting a national employment strategy on Jevons eventually rescuing the math is a bet that the next two years will look nothing like the last two \u2014 and there\u2019s nothing in the cards that suggests that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n

And even the best-case scenario is a bit dim: <\/strong>There is a version of this where some of the higher-value work continues to be offshored to the region, and Cairo, Casablanca, and Amman remain cheaper than Frankfurt or London. Even in that version, the volume of jobs is an order of magnitude smaller than what the original bet was supposed to deliver. A handful of high-paying engineering and analytics \u2014 or legal, banker, and other back-office \u2014 positions in each capital is not a national employment strategy, but a recipe for rising unemployment among young, highly-educated, and credentialed professionals who will feel betrayed by a system that promised them respectable and sustainable careers. <\/p>\n

The bottom line is that this is, in effect, our own version of the productivity paradox that <\/strong>the rich world is now confronting.<\/strong> India is showing us, in real time, that you can grow services-export revenue while shedding the people who used to deliver it. Companies who buy outsourcing services have shown us all that this is the model they intend to build, and capital markets have priced it in. We\u2019re witnessing the early days of a transition that has already begun, against an industry whose buyers, capital allocators, and most experienced operators have all moved before we have even noticed. <\/p>\n

The dream the region sold itself in 2010 is gone<\/strong>, and the most expensive thing we can possibly do is keep selling it to ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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