To the wonder of many, the pandemic brought a remarkable shift the way Human Resources defined Talent Mobility. While we were stuck at home, the digital transformation carved the path to place the right person with the right skills at the right roles at the right time.
Global talent mobility has become a desired approach for organizations to thrive and succeed, even in the most unwelcoming situations. What previously meant packing bags, hiring cabs, and catching flights have now become on-time meetings, anytime brainstorming, and improved productivity, all in the comfort of our own homes!
Today talent mobility stands for unlimited possibilities and transformative workforce management. Let’s take a quick dive at the WHATs and WHYs of putting talent into action.
Global Talent Mobility – A Teaser Look
Global talent mobility refers to clearing ways for skilled professionals across borders, ensuring exchange of knowledge, expertise, and diverse perspectives. It involves using local talent for opportunities beyond borders as well as attracting foreign talent, depending on the need.
In contrast to earlier beliefs on the relocation of individuals to new countries for work, geographical barriers are no longer a hurdle for employing talents for best-desired outcomes. It enables organizations to tap into a global pool of talent and get an edge over competitors with the best skills from around the world.
What Global Talent Mobility brings to your table?
Let’s explore the benefits of global mobility of talent from anywhere to the best interest of your organization:
Easy access to global talent
Embracing global talent mobility provides your organization the freedom to tap into a vast pool of highly skilled professionals with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
This access to a broader talent pool injects fresh ideas, innovation, and unique problem-solving approaches, fostering growth and competitiveness within an increasingly globalized marketplace.
Hassle-free international expansion
As your business expands into international markets, global mobility strategy becomes a vital component. By taking advantage of talent from different regions, you can adapt to local markets, navigate cultural nuances, and gain a competitive edge over local competitors.
Smooth knowledge transfer and skill development
Global talent mobility acts as a catalyst for knowledge sharing and cross-cultural collaboration. By bringing together individuals from various countries, you promote the exchange of ideas, best approaches, and technological advancements, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development within your organization.
Promote diversity and inclusion
By embracing global talent mobility, you can move forward with a diverse and inclusive workforce. By bringing individuals from different cultures and backgrounds under the same umbrella, you create an ecosystem that values teamwork, celebrates diversity, nudges innovation, and enhances employee engagement and retention.
Hurdles talent mobility management hold
Like every other side of a coin, global talent mobility also comes with its own set of challenges.
Compliance with local labor laws
The diverse labor laws and other regulatory systems across countries makes talent mobility management a challenge. Ensuring compliance for your workforce, navigating work permits and visa arrangements for any associated short/long-term travel, and providing country-based mandatory employment benefits all come under the complex and time-consuming tasks. Also, violation of labor laws can put you in serious legal complications.
Cultural Differences among workforce
Cultural barriers can create blocks for effective collaboration among an internationally dispersed workforce. Understanding and respecting diverse cultural norms and practices becomes important to foster harmonious working relationships and maximizing the potential of global talent.
Data Security and Privacy
The exchange of sensitive data and intellectual property pose a threat of data security violation. Ensuring data security and compliance with data privacy laws across different jurisdictions is a challenge that organizations must address to maintain trust and safeguard valuable information.
Paying employees with different tax compliances
Just like the employees scattered beyond the geographical boundaries, their payment also varies. It has to be in their respective currencies, and can be a challenge for the unprepared!
For instance, you have local employees, some from the United Kingdom, some from Japan, and another few from China. These countries have different currencies and different tax regimes you need to follow. In one you might need to pay employee insurance, while in another, you don’t! Without expert assistance, handling these by your team can be quite overwhelming. It will not bring you any remarkable results, but your time and effort.
How effectively you address these challenges, makes or breaks your success roadmap. Remember, it requires proactive planning and effective strategies to create an environment fit for successful talent mobility across the globe.
Already thinking of what talent mobility strategies to follow?
Ease Off Global Talent Mobility with Multiplier
You are busy running a business and very much deserve the expert help to get talent mobility sorted.
As a global employment platform, we aim to make handling talents a lot easier. How do we do the heavy lifting? Well, we have our ways.
- Manage employment legalities: Our platform helps you get in line with the legal aspects in over 190 countries. All you need is to enter the country of your choice (your employee’s country) and the details of the employee. With just a few clicks, you will ensure your employee is onboarded in alignment with all necessary categories – what notice period your employee will need to serve, what is the probation period, how many holidays are they getting, what benefits are to be made available, and every other aspect you need to be compliant with.
- Handle payroll taxes and benefits: Each country has its own specific list of taxes and payroll formalities. How on earth would you know all this tiniest of information? That is where Multiplier as an Employer of Record comes to your rescue! We handle the payroll, the various employer and employee taxes associated, what benefits are to be given mandatorily, do the employer wishes to provide any additional benefits, such as family health insurance, all of it! The entire burden is shifted from your shoulders and is left free to put more effort on improving your business than wasting time on operational nuances.
- Pay employees and freelancers in their desired currencies: Global talent acquisition comes in all forms – both employees and freelancers. It’s important to pay the workforce in their desired currencies. Multiplier facilitates smooth and timely payments to the involved parties in their local currency. It is a huge responsibility and we make sure you do not feel the pressure of it in any way.
To conclude, organizations need to be proactive enough to make the big leap. Keep your trust in Multiplier and confidently pave the way for your business success with the best talent bringing best results in the best possible ways.
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Ria Thomas
Product Marketing Manager
Ria is a Product Marketing Manager at Multiplier