blogs / 23 Nov 2021

Developing a Successful Global Talent Strategy: The Benefits and Challenges of an Increasingly Remote Work Population

Remote work. Hybrid workforce. Distributed workforce.

These are all terms that have become part of our regular conversations since the Covid-19 pandemic started in 2020. Pivoting your policies, culture, training, and compliance to handle this new way of working can be overwhelming and time consuming. In many corporations, mobility leaders are being tasked with researching, developing, and implementing new remote work protocols for the entire organization. Mobility is now responsible for bringing all of the key stakeholders together to ensure that all aspects of remote work will be manageable—and, most of all, equitable—for the workforce.

The revised remote work policies must include several key components including:

  • where your employees can work
  • approval process and responsibilities
  • compensation adjustments
  • duty of care
  • clear differentiation on which costs will be incurred by the company and the employee

Corporate culture also needs to be woven throughout to ensure a cohesive organizational identity.

While developing these policies can be a painstaking process, there are many benefits to having a diverse, distributed workforce. Cost savings can occur in two ways: brick and mortar locations becoming unnecessary, and employees relocating to lower cost locations or reducing commuter expenses.

Erika Reichard

about the author

Erika Reichard has more than 23 years of global mobility industry experience in global learning and development, relocation accounting, and project management. As Director of Business Process, Erika specializes in collaborating across the business to identify and implement process and system efficiencies that drive client and customer excellence.