The Ultimate Guide to Managing Global Teams: HR & People Ops Strategies

Managing global teams presents unique challenges, from navigating diverse employment laws to aligning compensation and fostering team cohesion across different cultures and time zones. This guide is tailored for HR and People Operations professionals looking for effective strategies to streamline these processes.

With years of international experience, Deel is a trusted partner equipped to tackle these complexities with innovative tools and strategic insights. In this article, we’ll explore how to use automated HR workflows, centralized compliance tools, and a global HRIS to simplify global team management.

Implementing these strategies will enhance efficiency, attract top talent, and build a global workforce that is competitive, compliant, and engaged.

Avoid talent loss with globally competitive comp, benefits, and perks

The quality of talent in your roles is crucial for the success of your global expansion. It largely impacts your company’s performance.

Deel removes a key challenge in winning top talent—competition from bigger brands with better benefits and perks. This is crucial, as monetary compensation is the top factor employees look at when selecting an employer.

Deel ensures you hit the right spot with your pay by providing:

• An employee cost calculator and salary insights tool to help benchmark compensation for different roles in various countries
• Guidance on minimum wage and payroll laws for each country
• Access to discounted rates from top-tier benefits providers, allowing you to offer attractive pension, healthcare, and insurance plans to your workers
• Equity management services

With the right tools and information, you can enhance your compensation strategy to attract the best talent from the global talent pool and ensure long-term retention.

Discover how Prenetics offers attractive perks and benefits to candidates with Deel. It ensures a positive employee experience from the first contact.

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Prevent legal challenges with compliant international employee and contractor hiring

Hiring domestically is often straightforward. However, becoming a global employer introduces complex local regulations that can be overwhelming.

Deel Employer of Record (EOR) and Deel Contractor of Record (COR) simplify this process. They enable compliant hiring in over 150 countries where we’ve established local entities.

These tools ensure correct employee classification, localized agreements, hiring contracts, and payroll. It minimizes legal risks, ensuring smooth cross-border operations.

Additionally, Deel’s tax and compliance experts are always on hand to ensure compliance with local labor laws and regulations throughout the employee lifecycle.

By handling these complexities, Deel reduces dependence on internal or outsourced legal teams while ensuring your organization complies with local requirements.

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Overcome administrative burdens with global HR workflows

Middle managers spend nearly a day each week on administrative tasks. HR and people operations, in particular, handle demanding admin work like recruiting, onboarding process, benefits administration, and contractor management.

Juggling these responsibilities across multiple systems and time zones can result in data discrepancies and increased workload. These tasks are also time-consuming and divert focus from strategic HR activities.

This is where Deel’s workflow builder steps in.

The workflow builder enables the creation of custom workflows that automate repetitive HR tasks. This includes:

• Hiring workflows, including background checks
• Onboarding workflows, such as customized onboarding emails, mandatory training, providing access to software, and issuing equipment
• Offboarding workflows, including automatic calculation of final payments
• Country-specific employment contract generation workflows
• Global payroll automation
• Expense management and payouts

Deel’s workflow builder lets you customize as many workflows as you need for different locations and worker classifications. It caters to the needs of diverse teams.

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Prevent workforce data errors with strong global team oversight

Having clear oversight of your workforce is essential for making informed decisions regarding hiring, promotions, and training. It also supports functions like bookkeeping.

However, collecting insights from multiple sources, such as HRIS and payroll systems, can be complex and time-consuming, especially for international teams. This complexity increases when HR holds information that is hard to access, requiring manual data handovers.

Deel addresses these challenges by offering a centralized, global HRIS. It enables seamless data integration and access for all departments.

With Deel, you can manage data from your entire global workforce using a single dashboard. You’re able to generate highly interactive and tailored reports on:

• Country-specific headcount
• Total employer costs across different hiring methods
• Retention
• Attrition
• Time off

Plus, Deel’s integration and open API let you sync data across your tech stack for more comprehensive workforce insights.

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Identify operational weaknesses with global HR reporting and analytics

Identifying areas for improvement in HR processes and systems is crucial for driving operational efficiency. However, the fragmentation of data often makes it challenging to effectively analyze information.

Deel consolidates your global HR data in real-time, enabling you to:

• Present stakeholders with digestible and comprehensive status updates
• Identify trends that highlight strengths and weaknesses in HR operations
• Build business cases for strategic improvements

Deel’s in-house team of experts is also available to provide guidance on workforce management strategies. This assistance helps optimize your workforce strategy and stay ahead of industry changes.

Discover how Tiny Studio saves over $40,000 annually by streamlining more than 10 HR processes with Deel.

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Fix disconnected teams with a strong global engagement strategy

Employee engagement boosts innovative workplace behavior. Engaged workers are also more likely to contribute positively to business performance. However, effectively engaging a globally dispersed workforce can be challenging.

Varying work schedules make it challenging to foster connection and ensure everyone feels valued. In global teams, differences in career growth trajectories and performance expectations can create confusion and a fragmented employee experience, ultimately hurting productivity and morale.

Deel Engage makes it easy to connect with and motivate workers across different locations. The AI-powered people suite enables you to manage development, performance, and training programs in one place to build a company culture of growth and development.

The suit includes:

• 360 degree feedback performance reviews: Provides contractors and full-time employees with a holistic understanding of their strengths and weaknesses
• Training library of external and internal courses: Demonstrates the company’s investment in growth, increasing workers’ commitment and engagement
• Competency-based career progression frameworks: Makes career paths more transparent and achievable, boosting employee motivation
• Slack HR plugins: Improves collaboration and communication, helping international employees feel more connected to the company and its goals

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Manage global teams effortlessly with Deel

Effective management of top global talent requires an equally top-notch tool, and that tool is Deel, an all-in-one global people platform.

Deel makes hiring, onboarding, and managing your global team easy. With Deel, you can:

• Attract and retain top talent with globally competitive benefits and perks
• Ensure full compliance while managing all worker types across 150 countries on one platform, our truly global HRIS
• Streamline HR admin and onboarding with automated HR workflows
• Make data-driven decisions with powerful global reporting and analytics
• Boost team performance, growth, and engagement with Deel Engage

If you need extra support, a team of experienced HR and legal experts is available to assist you.

Book a demo to see how Deel services can meet your needs for managing a global workforce.