Older Assignees & Expatriate Workers
The rise of Gen Z and millennials grabs headlines and companies scramble to accommodate the expectations of new generations. However, the fact that the workforce is ageing quickly is an equally important trend. This trend is a global one, not limited to Europe and North America. Workforces in many emerging markets in Asia and Latin […]
Managing Expatriate Gig Workers
The fast growing gig economy is changing the way companies run their businesses and manage their employees. On paper, the gig economy model – in which workers take on temporary work to perform specific tasks or projects – looks like a win-win for the company and for the employees. From a company perspective, the gig […]
Nurturing Diversity in Non-Diverse Locations
Nurturing diversity within the workforce is not just a moral imperative, it also makes economic sense: it allows companies to tap into new talent pools and provide a significant advantage in the global talent war. While companies are making progress on the road to diversity, they face problems when relocating employees to destinations where specific […]
Expat Package (What Do Employees Expect?)
The success or failure of an overseas assignment can often be impacted by the quality of the expat package provided to assignees when asked to work overseas. A competitive compensation package will not only help to attract the best available candidates for the job from within your organisation or when recruiting externally, it will also […]
UK Service Supplier Visa: Guide & Requirements
The UK Service Supplier visa is open to overseas service providers or overseas independent professionals looking to undertake a temporary work assignment in the UK. It is a specialist visa category designed to facilitate the entry of professionals who are engaged in providing services under a contract within the United Kingdom. It allows those who […]
Keeping Pace with Global Talent Mobility
The pace of change in talent mobility and global HR in general keeps accelerating as technological innovation, new generations entering the workforce, and new forms of global mobility are emerging. These ongoing changes bring a mixed bag of heightened employee expectations, hopes of better management practices and business uncertainties, and force HR teams to reassess […]
Adopting Flexibility in Global Mobility
A successful global mobility programme needs to work well for both the assignees and the company. But implementing an effective expatriate policy that is both flexible and defined enough to serve as the foundation for any mobility scenario is a challenge, even for the most evolved global mobility programmes. In reality, developing flexible international mobility […]
UK Expansion Worker Visa: Complete Guide 2024
Through the UK Expansion Worker visa, overseas companies can deploy senior personnel to the UK to set up their first UK branch or subsidiary. It replaced the previous Sole Representative visa, and is one of the specialist sponsored work routes under the Global Business Mobility (GMB) visa umbrella. While the UK Expansion Worker visa offers […]
Global Business Mobility Visa Guide
The Global Business Mobility visa is an umbrella category of five different types of UK work visas. These visas are designed for employees of overseas companies to undertake specific types of work or assignments in the UK. As each of the Global Business Mobility visas have their own eligibility and application requirements, the GBM rules […]
Representative of an Overseas Business Visa
The Representative of an Overseas Business visa is a visa for employees of overseas newspapers, news agencies or broadcasting organisations who are being posted by their employer on long-term assignments to the UK. If you are applying as a representative of an overseas business that has not yet started trading in the UK, and you […]