Mercer and Work From Anywhere Announce Global Partnership
Welcome to this month’s newsletter.
This month we cover:
Mercer partnership
Work From Anywhere finalist at the Think Global People Awards
John speaking at Mercer talent mobility conference
Remotely Interesting with John
Product Updates with Donal
Mel’s tip of the day
Mercer Partnership
We are thrilled to formally announce our partnership with Mercer, a global leader in HR consultancy. Mercer, known for its forward-thinking approach to work and talent mobility, has chosen to join forces with Work From Anywhere to further its commitment to preparing businesses for the future of work.
Why Mercer chose Work From Anywhere is simple – they envision a future where the global talent pool is not an exception but the norm. They foresee a world where companies confidently adopt new operating models such as Employers of Record and Digital Nomad Visas, and champion the concept of an agile, globally distributed workforce.
However, as our regular newsletter readers will know, such a future comes with its challenges – including tax, legal, and immigration risks. The partnership between Work From Anywhere and Mercer aims to provide clients worldwide the power to manage their compliance and effortlessly navigate these innovative work models and associated risks at the touch of a button.
Work From Anywhere Finalist at the Think Global People Awards
We also had some great news in recent weeks by being named as a finalist in the Think Global People Awards.
The awards ceremony will be held in conjunction with The Innovation Festival for Global Working on the 8th June 2023 in Kent, UK.
You can find more information about these awards here.
Work From Anywhere at Mercer Talent Mobility Conference
Did you know that you can find Work From Anywhere at the Mercer talent mobility conference in Brussels this June 14-15?
John will be there both days, so make sure to hunt him down at the Work From Anywhere booth and ask him every question under the sun! John will also be moderating at the speed networking sessions on day 1, one not to miss.
Register below to secure your spot at what is certain to be an incredible event with some of the brightest thought leaders in the talent mobility space.
It has been another busy few weeks for the team. We’re thrilled to have been able to share the great news about the Mercer partnership and of course the cherry on top of the Think Global awards nomination. And then when we receive feedback like this from Kylie, it makes all the hard work worthwhile.
When I take a step back, it has been interesting to see how clients are looking at the evolution of remote work and are settling down on their own approach to remote work in their organizations.
This has been a once in a 100 year shift so it’s going to continue to take some time before companies get to grips with this. I made this point during my catch up with a group of US real estate leaders which you can see more of here.
What I have noticed from speaking to clients and other remote work leaders is that while temporary work from anywhere requests continue to be a pain point, certainly with requests from employees, there is beginning to be a growing recognition that possibly the bigger shift is how you source talent and finding the right operating model for that.
Offering a workation to an employee can certainly help with talent acquisition and employee retention, but being able to source the right skills at the right time in the right place, no matter where your physical office is located, is the much bigger shift that is taking place.
We saw how outsourcing of manufacturing to Asia and Eastern Europe impacted on West European and North American supply chains in the 90’s and early 2000’s.
How will this evolve if a similar transformation takes place for non-manufacturing roles?
And what does that mean for talent acquisition, which to date has been primarily domestic?
Let’s see but we firmly believe there’s a strong business case for a proactive approach here.
Work From Anywhere on Trustpilot
“What Work From Anywhere have built is truly revolutionary. I am a tax professional myself and tell everyone they need this tool. This tool truly allows companies to act on decision making at unheard of speeds.” Jessalyn Dean, Managing Director
We’re delighted to officially be on Trustpilot and have been blown away by the feedback everyone has given us. Curious to hear what others have said?
We’ve made one subtle, yet major change to the platform over the last month with the inclusion of an overall risk rating. This traffic light system helps simplify the interpretation of the assessment, speeds up the decision making process and enables wider approval delegation for remote work trips or hires.
For example, the compliance team may currently be a bottleneck, drowning in requests from employees. Now, they can quite easily delegate responsibility down to line managers with a simple approval process based on the overall risk rating:
Low Risk => Automatically approved
Medium Risk => Escalated to compliance team for review and approval
High Risk => Escalated to compliance team for review and requires executive team approval
The best part is that we empower you to customize your company’s risk threshold within the company profile section, which influences the results. You can ratchet up (or down) your overall risk appetite to best reflect your company’s attitude and adoption of remote work.
We’ve got a few more significant features in R&D at the moment including further progression of our global footprint health check, so keep an eye out as we continue to rapidly innovate in this space.
Mel’s Tip of the Day
I’m also using this opportunity to reflect on the last nine months, which have been tremendously exciting for me and the team at Work From Anywhere. After spending 15 years working in FMCG inhouse mobility teams, it was the opportunity or leap of faith, to jump in to Europe’s fastest growing start-up of all time that was the catalyst in moving my thinking from traditional mobility to what I keep talking about – Geo Strategy.
Strategising with John and Donal on Work and Hire From Anywhere, using the robust proprietary engine they built I believe is the accelerator to achieve a Geo Strategy and I use the word accelerator knowingly as “to gain speed”. One thing I value at work is making a difference and to do that I need time…and to create time I need to gain speed in my processes and day to day tasks. So when I hear feedback from clients that describe this tool as having “unheard of speeds”, I know how much value it brings to the Total Rewards, Mobility, Tax, Legal and People Ops teams.
And we will continue innovating to come up with more exciting products to give you back more time for the important things in work and life…off to watch my son play basketball now!
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