Global Assignment Guide for UK Employers (2026)
A global assignment can offer UK employers a practical route into new markets, access to specialist skills and long-term leadership development. However, deploying an employee overseas is not only a logistical exercise. It engages overlapping legal duties and compliance risks across employment law, immigration, tax, health and safety and data protection. A global assignment is […]
Digital Nomad UK: Employer Legal Guide 2026
The term “digital nomad” is now widely used to describe professionals who work remotely while travelling or living outside their home country. The growth of cloud-based systems, cross-border teams and post-pandemic remote work has made this model increasingly common. Employees may ask to work from Europe under a digital nomad visa, to return to their […]
International Remote Working: Guide for UK Employers
International remote working allows employees to perform their duties from a location outside their usual country of employment. As work practices evolve, more organisations are offering such flexibility to accommodate employee preferences, support global operations or access talent in different locations. While this arrangement has clear benefits, such as enhanced employee satisfaction and cost savings, […]
Overseas Work Permit (How to Get One!)
When looking at how to get an overseas work permit for an employee, there will be a number of factors to consider. This can be daunting for HR and mobility teams, given the highly changeable nature and varied nature of global immigration rules. One of the key requirements when deploying employees overseas on assignment is […]
Assignment Management (Overseas Management Risks)
Overseas assignment management is becoming increasingly common as employers move away from permanent relocations in favour of more flexible and less costly solutions to deploy key employees to different regions. Overseas assignments present both opportunities and risks for employers. While the move may be temporary, employees still require support both in terms of the logistics […]
Global Mobility Compliance (The Advantage!)
With an effective global mobility programme, your organisation can derive commercial advantage from deploying the right talent to the right location at the right time. But with movement of people across multiple borders comes global mobility compliance risks. For multinationals looking to enhance their global mobility compliance and reduce risk exposure, the challenge is finding […]
3 Key Triggers of Business Immigration Risk
Employers may be surprised to learn that certain organisational changes can leave them open to breaches in immigration duties. Oversights and poor management of immigration issues can result in problems with retaining your sponsor licence and your ability to hire from overseas, leaving you open to the risk of sponsor licence suspension or at worst, licence revocation. In the current […]