Importing workers is one way to solve the talent shortage; the other is the push the jobs to where the workers are. Remote work has hitherto been a white collar, knowledge worker phenomena, but we are beginning to see remote work appear in other sectors which had previously required on-premise location.
Telepresence is making remote work a working class phenomenon also. More to come on this phenomena has retail, security, warehousing, healthcare staff remain challenging to hire with either native or imported labour.