Neela Richardson

It is eager, vibrant, lively, and dealing with the ticking demographic time clock.

I think I'm going to start with the word I didn't use, urgency.

You walk...

Blocks and blocks, and all you see is vendors and commerce and merchants over and over and over again.

And yet it is a city that knows it has to transition quickly from where its past was in labor-intensive industries to where the global economy is going.

Because I see something a little bit different.

We started this conversation about a workforce that is at its peak in terms of the prime age worker.

And every boss that we talk to, they're all about their talent.

They're all about their people.

That's great.

But then here's where the time clock gets in.

Because people are so much a part of this value-add, service-oriented, eager workforce.

But they are also rapidly going to an aging economy in Vietnam.

Right.

So there is a window of time where they can tap into this workforce right now.

That's why everybody's focused on this moment to maximize that future.

Well, that's the thing.

If it was only their own talent and their own value add, then absolutely.

But their market is not Vietnam.

Their market is the U.S., Europe, Japan.