The advancing digitization of processes and workflows is already influencing today our daily actions – such as the nature of our communication and our social and in particular the functioning of our business and work. How will this be in the future? Speculated and discussed in this context is about numerous possible short- and long-term consequences (Lin, 2016). A central aspect is growing Inequalities on the labour market, which are among other things in wage spreading both at the lower and upper edge of the wage distribution. But also in the dualization of the labour market via atypical or “precarious” employment, in which replaceability of human work by robots and machines as well as in newly emerging Working in the so-called platform economy. The present study aims to contribute to a proactive debate with the challenges that due to this trend affect the employees in business area. Ultimately, there is the change associated with the offshoring trend of occupational imagery. By recognizing, the changing requirements as early as possible, the opportunities associated with the trend can be exploited and the risks can be mitigated will.

International Trade Theory

The new trade theory from the 80s of the last century, offers an explanation the rise of intra-industry trade, while older trade theories only declared the trade in final products based on differences technology and comparative advantages (Kinkel, 2014). Many goods and services can benefit economies of scale in production so that the average price of the good or service decreases as the production increases. As a result, the global production of a well in one place more attractive than local production in many different places. It is this specialization and trade is increasing. Consumers prefer different varieties of goods and thereby export For example, Germany and France cars to each other without the conditions in both countries to produce cars much different. Paul Krugman has for the development of this theory and the next topic in 2008, the Award received for economy.

Initial Situation, Objectives and Procedure

In the course of globalization, the international trade interconnections have increased in recent years 25 years (Hummels, 2012). This is for a small open economy such as Switzerland especially as exports represent a large share of economic activity and have an important impact on the economic development. The cost pressure for the company in Switzerland has been reinforced in the last years by the increasing value of the Swiss franc, which makes exports more expensive and reduces imports. This increases the incentive to outsource business activities. Against this background, many companies in Switzerland are looking to outsource and offshoring projects (Hummels, 2014). This trend is a major challenge for Switzerland as a business location and this is not the case only in the industrial sector, but also in the service sector in recent years and ultimately for the employees in the commercial sector.

Recent Trends in Offshoring

Growth within offshoring on a global scale is clear inside the steady expansion of alternate in goods and services that are used as intermediate inputs. As an example, among 2000 and 2006, international exports of intermediate goods grew at an annual fee of 14 according to cent, compared with a nine in line with cent price for final items (Harrison, 2011). Following not unusual exercise, we quantify the intensity of offshoring by United States of America and through enterprise the use of two ratios:

• (a) Imported intermediate inputs over gross output,
• (b) Imported intermediate inputs over their total usage

Each are calculated from popular enterprise datasets maintained by way of country wide statistical organizations, for that reason allow for global, and cross industry comparisons. Whilst measures based totally on import content are derived below, some restrictive assumptions and do now not carry an entire image of the globalization of production, they are probable indicative of the general traits (Feenstra, 1999).