Prince may have wanted to party like it’s 1999. But let’s not fall for the spin that it’s acceptable to be serviced like it’s 2019.

China’s relentless focus on a zero-COVID strategy runs the risk of derailing its aspiration to be the world’s largest economy.

The Australian and United Kingdom governments signed a Free Tade Agreement (A-UKFTA) on 17 December 2021. This is the most comprehensive and ambitious free trade agreement that Australia has concluded, other than with New Zealand. It demonstrates both countries’ commitment to free trade as a driver of economic growth and stronger bilateral relationships.

Immigration law firm, Gilton Valeo Lawyers and global workforce advisor, Mark Wright from Globility Group today announced that they have joined forces to meet the increasingly complex cross-border talent mobility demands of business in Australia.

At a time of unprecedented disruption in the global economy, the QUAD Alliance presents the Indo-Pacific region with an opportunity for transformative change.

I’ve been writing about the looming global shortage of talent for some time. Reality seems to be biting a little harder now that the reopening of international borders is looming.

For many years the business community has placed the value of professional services (e.g. accounting, taxation, legal) on the cost of delivering those services - for example the cost of a tax return or the cost of obtaining a visa. In the post-COVID world, I predict that business will increasingly shift their value proposition from the value of information, to placing greatest value on opinion and insights.

COVID-19 has also delivered one of the biggest looming workforce challenges of our time – a global labour shortage. This evolving global economic environment has created what I call the pandemic paradox – numerous developed economies are seeing continued high unemployment levels in 2021, at the same time as seeing historically high job vacancies across multiple industry sectors. What does this apparent workforce contradiction mean for global businesses preparing to re-engage with the global marketplace as international borders start to re-open?

Before largescale international movement recommences, there's an opportunity for business leaders to assess the global workforce vendor relationships they had pre-COVID. Typically these vendor relationships include services such as immigration, taxation, legal, relocation and global mobility services. There's a risk for business leaders to lead their business into a very different post-COVID workforce world with vendors who deliver their services in largely the same manner they did pre-COVID.

What does a better vendor relationship look like?

The Globility Perspectives series explores the impact of global companies headquartered in the United States of America will play in the post-COVID global workforce.

USA-headquartered businesses have traditionally been the innovators of many of the workforce trends we have seen in the past. Will this continue in the most disruptive period the workplace has seen in our living memory?