[rogue yam]

There's no analysis here so it's impossible to know how they came up with the figure of 2 million jobs. But I wonder it that figure takes into account the economic activity the listed consumers undertake with the money they would have spent on products and services bought from the now laid-off solicitors. Those 2 million jobs can only have existed if the now-listed (and therefore no-longer-called) consumers were spending money on telemarketed products. These consumers are not now going to just burn that money. How many jobs in some other sector will be created to offset the telemarketing jobs lost?

[steve-b]

There's no analysis here so it's impossible to know how they came up with the figure of 2 million jobs.

They just pulled it out. One hopes that they were wearing rubber gloves.