Nicole Sahin - Future of Work: How to Build the Most Effective Global Remote Teams to Grow Your Business

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Building Effective Global Remote Teams: Grab the Opportunities of Tomorrow

With the global pandemic now acting as a catalyst for remote work, the opportunity to build effective global remote teams has arrived like never before. But how does one leverage this trend effectively? Nicole, the founder of Globalization Partners, sheds light on this subject based on her rich experience in managing a global employer of record platform.

The Promise of Global Remote Work

Global remote work holds powerful potential for businesses to harness global talent more seamlessly. As Nicole explains, "The world's best talent is at your fingertips and it's there now in a way that it's never been before." The advent of digital collaboration technologies enables businesses to easily reach out to and onboard foreign talent. The benefits include accessing hard-to-find skills, maximizing revenue, and cost efficiency. Furthermore, you gain an enormous competitive edge in the talent war.

Hiring Internationally: The How-To Guide

Hiring international talent has its share of legal, HR, and tax complexities. Navigating these can be daunting but, fortunately, managing these aspects can be simplified by partnering with an expert provider such as Globalization Partners. Their platform enables businesses to employ global talent in a locally compliant manner without the need to set up a local entity. It’s effectively HR outsourcing on a global scale. This ensures quick and seamless onboarding while avoiding potential international tax and compliance traps.

Going Global: Strategic Steps Detailed

So you've decided to go global, but what are the next steps? Should you look to Europe or Asia? Which are the best hubs to find talent? Here, Nicole suggested several steps to take:

  1. First, align your talent search strategy with your geographic plans or goals. Is your market in Asia or Europe? What talent do you need in each time zone? Can there be language barriers to be tackled? Are the living costs in line with your HR budget?
  2. Find and foster tech talent hotspots. Many countries such as Poland, Ireland, Romania, Ukraine, and Russia are rich in tech talent centered around universities.
  3. Establish back office hubs in strategically considered regions, based on business needs, cost considerations, cultural fit, and more. Some promising examples for Europe could be Ireland, Poland, or Romania, while for Asia, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, India and the Philippines stand out.

Building a Unified Digital Culture: The Critical Element

Building a remote team is not just about hiring global talent; it requires fostering a unified digital culture. This includes nurturing an organization-wide community, enhancing seamless communication by adopting a video-first policy, performing frequent employee feedback sessions, and investing in leadership training and building clear career ladder programs.

Is Global Remote Work A Threat to Workforce in High Cost of Living Areas?

In an engaging Q&A session, a critical question popped up – could the rise of global remote work affect workforces in high-cost living areas negatively? To this, Nicole prudently observed that currently, the demand for talent in both high and low-cost areas continues unabated, suggesting a “rise of the rest”, rather than a suppression of high-cost regions.

The Future is Here, and It is Global

In summary, the future of work is undeniably global. Businesses have the opportunity to leverage the entire world as the talent pool, and those who strategically adopt these practices are bound to stay ahead in the game. It hence appears that now is as good a time as any to build effective global remote teams.


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