Open your favorite news site, and you’ll soon immerse yourself in a bleak reality of global migration, spanning from the U.S.-Mexican border, to China sending home expats, to urgent labor shortages in post-Brexit UK. These struggles are real. But they are not the entire story.
Building a Globally Diverse Team Is Actually Getting Easier
Five ways leaders can identify and recruit international talent.
January 24, 2022
Summary.
If you follow only the global headlines, you’ll get the impression that the outlook for global talent mobility is bleak. However, a new analysis finds that, in fact, it’s rarely been easier for skilled talent to cross borders. BCG researchers analyzed the relative ease of global relocation for skilled talent, comparing the world’s 10 most popular destination countries as well as China and Japan. They found that with two exceptions (the U.S. and China), many countries have now put the legal framework in place to hire and relocate global talent at a cost and speed that is broadly comparable with hiring domestically, and they offer five tactics for corporate leaders looking to build globally diverse teams.
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