The Inflection Point for Global Labor

By TED ROSE, ROSE FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS

This week’s conversations underscored a clear shift: the rules of global labor are changing fast...

The writing is on the wall: the economics of global labor are shifting.

This week brought two seismic signals:

  • A new $100,000 H-1B visa fee on new petitions, reshaping talent strategies.
  • Proposed legislation to remove tax deductions for offshored labor and add a 25% excise tax on outsourcing payments.

For decades, U.S. companies chased efficiency abroad, sending high-volume, low-cost work offshore. That playbook is closing.


The Inflection Point

Manufacturing is already showing us the pattern: when it returns onshore, it doesn’t bring back the old factory floors. It comes back automated—fewer workers, higher skills, higher pay.

Finance, accounting, and tax will follow the same path. The offshored back office isn’t coming back as armies of clerks. It’s coming back as automated processes, guided by a smaller number of skilled professionals.

This is the inflection point and leaders must decide now:

  • Will you invest in the financial infrastructure that automates work?
  • Or wait until rising costs force your hand?


The Role of AI in the Shift

AI isn’t optional—it’s the accelerator. The move away from foreign labor toward automation will happen faster than most realize, and AI is the catalyst.

At ROSE, we’ve been preparing for this future. Our Easby platform already brings together 15 AI skills designed to eliminate bottlenecks, increase accuracy, and accelerate automation across finance and accounting.

Our mission is clear: by 2030, Easby will enable 85% automation of finance and accounting tasks—freeing leaders to focus on strategy, growth, and impact.


Built in the U.S., for U.S. Companies

While others depend on offshore labor, ROSE does not. We hire in the U.S., we build in the U.S., and we’re committed to supporting American companies (and foreign companies that want access to the US market) through this transition.

Automation is not about eliminating people—it’s about eliminating inefficiency. The companies that invest now will be the ones who thrive as this shift accelerates.


The Takeaway

The global labor equation has changed. The future belongs to leaders who embrace automation today, not tomorrow.

At ROSE, we’re ready. The question is—are you?

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In 1994 Ted Rose founded Rose Financial Solutions (ROSE), the Premier U.S. Based Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Firm. In 2010, the Blackbook of Outsourcing named ROSE the #1 FAO firm in the world based on client satisfaction. As the president and CEO of ROSE, he provides executives with financial clarity. Ted has also acted as the CFO for a number of growth companies and assisted with various rounds of financing and M&A transactions.

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