Introducing the Global Exchange for Work

The infrastructure global work has never had

Global work has become one of the world’s largest economic systems. Every year, billions of dollars in wages move across borders as companies hire talent internationally. Yet global work has never had real infrastructure.This session unpacks why global work has outgrown its current infrastructure, and what it will take for countries, companies, and talent to transact compliantly across borders — for the first time.

What you’ll learn

The forces reshaping global work

• Economic volatility, shifting regulation, AI, and geopolitical change are forcing companies, talent, and countries into bigger decisions with less certainty
• Why the old assumptions about how global teams get built no longer hold
• FX volatility and currency risk are reshaping how companies plan global payroll and revenue
• The rise of globalized remote supplier and contractor networks is multiplying the compliance surface companies have to manage
• Multi-country revenue models are forcing finance and HR to make decisions together instead of in silos

Why the old model no longer works

• The category problem: how the traditional EOR model was built for a different era of global work
• Why routing through local partners creates the exact fragility this shift is meant to solve

The Global Exchange for Work, explained

• What owning the infrastructure, rather than routing through local partners, actually means
• How legal, payroll, and compliance work as one connected system instead of stitched-together software

What owning infrastructure changes

• What breaks when legal, payroll, and compliance aren’t built to connect
• What it looks like when countries, companies, and talent can transact compliantly across borders by design

What this shift means going forward

• Live Q&A on what owning infrastructure changes for how companies hire and pay globally
• What to expect as more of the market moves off the “stitched-together” model
• Where to start if you’re rethinking your global infrastructure now