Monday, January 8, 2018

Jeddah Construction Workers


Much of Saudi Arabia's hard labor force has for decades been imported from poorer foreign countries. With Saudization of the work force, I am not sure how this will affect this segment of the population.  Saudization aims to replace foreign workers with Saudi nationals in an effort to reduce the amount of unemployment.  I heard that a million foreign workers left Saudi Arabia for good during this past year, which is evidenced by the large number of vacant apartments and slashed prices in rental properties.

3 comments:

Jerry Mc Kenna said...

That will probably improve working conditions.

Dina said...

This is very interesting. I wish we could do the same.

William Kendall said...

Some benefits and drawbacks either way, I would think.