[jackfranklyn]

The salary compression point is the one I find hardest to push back on. Accounting BPO to the Philippines was already growing fast pre-AI - firms like TOA Global were scaling rapidly. With AI reducing the training overhead for domain-specific work, that arbitrage gets even easier. The remaining barrier is local regulatory knowledge (UK tax law, Companies House requirements, etc.) but even that erodes when you're mostly supervising exceptions rather than doing the full work yourself.

[intended]

What do you mean when you say “AI is reducing training overhead”?

[christoff12]

Basically, "You don't have to understand how this works, just push this button when x, or flip this switch when y."

I don't think the impact will be quite as large as some are saying here, but it won't be minimal either.