Barcelona occupies the fourth position in the list of the most attractive cities in the world to work, only surpassed by London, New York and Berlin.
This is one of the conclusions offered by the report "Decoding Global Talent" just published by the consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which analyzes the opinion of thousands of workers around the world on international labor mobility. A total of 366,139 employees from 197 different countries participated in the survey for this study.
15% of the surveyed workers would be willing to move to Barcelona to work. The leading city in this ranking is London, cited by 22% of respondents. New York is second (16%) and Berlin third (15%).
Barcelona, which has gained three positions on the list compared to the ranking of the previous edition of the report (prepared in 2014), surpasses the cities of Amsterdam (14%), Dubai (12%), Los Angeles (11%), Paris (11%), Sydney (9%) and Tokyo (8%), which complete the list of the ten most attractive cities to work for employees worldwide.
One of the positive aspects highlighted in the report on the city of Barcelona is its capacity to respond to the labor needs of technology companies, for example those that open R&D centers. This is also the case for cities such as Tel Aviv, Abu Dhabi, or Hyderabad.
The Spanish capital, Madrid, ranks 11th on the list, ahead of Toronto, Vienna, Abu Dhabi, and Singapore.
The most attractive countries
The study also analyzes which countries are most attractive for going to work. In this case, the ranking is headed by the United States, cited by 34% of respondents. The second country is Germany (26%) and the third is Canada (24%).
Spain ranks sixth in the ranking (14%), surpassed by Australia (21%) and the United Kingdom (20%). Spain is ahead of France (14%), Switzerland (13%), Italy (11%), and Japan (10%), which completes the list of the ten preferred countries. In the 2014 study, Spain ranked eighth, so it has gained two positions in the last four years.
The study reveals that the desire to go work in another country has decreased in recent years. Thus, in this year's survey, 57% of participants would be willing to move to another country to work, which represents a 7-point drop compared to the 64% who had shown willingness to change in the 2014 survey.
More information:
- Decoding Global Talent 2018 - BCG
- "Decoding Global Talent" (Report in PDF)