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Recently we received a report from LinkedIn Talent Solutions called “The Digital Workforce Of The Future” (to see the report, Click here)  which focuses on the skills gap in Asia Pacific. The report describes itself as being “an in-depth analysis of recruiting activity and digital skills data” conducted by LinkedIn in August 2017.

The report includes a country-by-country list of the top 5 “in demand” digital skills in each of the following 13 countries:
 

Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam
 
Notice someplace missing from that list?
 

If inclusion was based on relative population size, or on GDP, or on internet usage, or on any one of a dozen other metrics, Thailand should by all rights have been included. 
 

The implication would seem to be that either LinkedIn believes demand for digital skills in the Thai economy is so inconsequential as to not even be worth analyzing, or that in their opinion the availability of those skills in the Thai workforce is so limited that a comparative ranking of the demand has no value.
 

Or has LinkedIn basically given up on getting enough traction with users in Thailand to generate meaningful statistics about our digital workforce?
 

Tell us why you think LinkedIn believes Thailand doesn’t deserve to be included in their report.