Employee Mobility Services: Easy Relocations for International Companies

Workers today expect location flexibility without compromising their employee experience. It has become a crucial perk that can impact a company’s ability to attract and retain talent.

A survey by The Conference Board shows that 65% of workers consider flexibility an important part of non-salary compensation.

In addition, talent mobility is essential to effective global expansion. Mobilizing talent facilitates knowledge exchange, enhances cultural understanding, and builds local networks—all of which are crucial for a successful global presence. It’s a win-win situation for both businesses and their workforce.

However, employee moves can pose challenges for HR staff. Relocation is complex, time-consuming, and costly. It often involves:

• Managing visa and work permit requirements
• Establishing foreign entities
• Collaborating with immigration lawyers
• Ensuring compliance with local labor and tax law
• Handling employee and family relocation logistics

Companies frequently face challenging decisions, having to weigh the complexities and costs associated with relocating workers against the risk of losing valuable employees or facing delays in entering new markets.

But there is another option: employee mobility services.

By partnering with the right employee mobility services, you can meet workers’ demands for flexibility. This not only boosts employee satisfaction but also creates opportunities for global expansion.

In this guide, we will demonstrate five ways in which the right employee mobility services support easy worker relocations and global mobility with minimal disruption and a positive employee experience.

1. Visa sponsorship solutions

Sponsoring a worker’s visa application requires having the right sponsorship infrastructure to qualify for a license, which often means having an entity in the target country.

Establishing an entity incurs significant costs, including registration fees and potential expenses for office space. There is also the legal burden of obtaining necessary licenses and meeting specific regulatory requirements for foreign companies.

However, you can relocate workers hands-off by combining employee mobility services and EOR services.

Deel Immigration offers an integrated EOR visa sponsorship service. We hire employees through our local entities, sponsor their visas, and manage their visas on an ongoing basis.

With coverage in over 40 countries, your sole task is to choose your next expansion destination.

Discover how Form3 used Deel Immigration and Deel EOR to provide visas to 10 workers and hire in over 30 countries.

See also: How Deel Is Reinventing the Immigration Journey

2. Hands-off visa procurement

Key challenges in obtaining visas include ensuring correct visa applications, accurate eligibility assessments, and addressing issues like denials or delays.

Without guidance from a relocation expert, many things can go wrong. This can potentially result in thousands of dollars in legal fees from consulting with immigration lawyers.

With Deel Immigration, you get all the support you need for streamlined employee relocations.

For starters, Deel eliminates the need to conduct manual visa research. It reduces the risk of misinterpreting information or relying on outdated sources.

Through Deel’s user-friendly dashboard, you can:

• Check the visa eligibility of your workers
• Explore the available visas in the target countries
• Compare the prices, timelines, and validity periods of the available visas

You and your workers also receive dedicated one-on-one support from an in-house team of immigration lawyers.

Once visa applications are complete, you can access all key information from a centralized immigration dashboard. This includes estimated timelines for case completion, upcoming steps, and any applicable fees.

An in-app case tracker provides status updates, offering real-time insights into the progress of your applications.

These features prevent costly errors and ensure you stay informed and in control throughout the relocation process.

3. Compliance confidence

Keeping up with immigration regulations requires ongoing commitment. It diverts time and resources from other HR and operational responsibilities. Instead of distracting your staff from their strategic activities, use employee relocation services that take care of immigration compliance.

Deel handles all aspects of immigration compliance by:

• Providing a Compliance Hub that keeps you updated on changes in relevant immigration and labor laws
• Creating locally compliant agreements and contracts for workers and ensuring they sign all required country-specific documents
• Guiding you on proper worker classification
• Overseeing all immigration activities and ensuring they comply with all laws and regulations
• Sending notifications of upcoming visa expiration
• Providing access to an in-house team of immigration experts that you can consult

4. Expert support

Adopting employee mobility involves entering unfamiliar territory. It requires careful planning and clear policies to ensure employees’ well-being during the transition. You must also implement measures that protect the company’s interests and minimize operational disruptions.

Deel Immigration provides the expert support you need to put effective measures into practice.

For instance, relocation can pose major financial complications for workers. The cost of living in the new country may be higher than in their home country, not to mention the initial moving expenses. Exchange rate fluctuations can also reduce the value of their income, potentially reducing their purchasing power.

Offering compensation that addresses these discrepancies is important to ensure workers’ financial stability in the new country.

Deel Immigration has built-in tools to help you determine competitive salary levels for relocated workers.

A Salary Insights Tool, for instance, shows the average salaries for specific roles in the target country. You also have easy access to a Global Benefits Tool. It outlines statutory, common, and competitive benefits available in the country.

Our payroll experts are available to answer your questions and concerns about salary adjustments, benefits, and taxes in specific countries.

This comprehensive support helps you design fair compensation packages tailored to local market conditions. It ensures that relocated workers can maintain their standard of living in the new country.

Additionally, Deel’s global payroll service simplifies local taxes and benefits administration. It enables you to make timely payments to your global workforce.

Deel Immigration also offers an Employee Relocation Policy Template and an Expat Contract Localization Policy Template to create well-rounded relocation policies. The design of these templates mitigates risks and supports employees effectively during their transition.

See also: Global Mobility and The Cost of Living Crisis: A Survival Guide for Businesses

5. Positive employee experiences

Employees want to feel supported during their relocation. They expect assistance with relocating their dependents, settling in the new country, and guidance on legal requirements.

They also expect a smooth and transparent immigration process. To meet these expectations, use employee mobility services that prioritize providing personalized assistance to your workers.

Deel incorporates modern HR tech that simplifies global mobility. It provides a dashboard that gives workers complete visibility of their application process, including:

• An onboarding checklist that shows the steps they need to take for the immigration process
• An overview of the entire process, allowing them to understand what to expect and how long it will take
• Status of the actions they have completed

Employees can upload the required documents without the hassle of email chains or manually tracking submissions. This gives them control over their documentation process and helps them submit everything on time.

As part of their relocation benefits package, workers receive discounts on services like pet relocation, housing, and transportation in their new country through Deel. This not only makes the transition smoother but also more cost-effective, even for relocations requested by the worker.

To further boost the employee experience, Deel offers your workers flexible payment methods such as e-wallets and instant card transfers.

They also receive aDeel Card they can use to purchase household goods and can use Deel Advance for early access to their paycheck. Easy availability of funds helps your workers settle into their new country more quickly.

Optimize your relocation program with Deel Immigration

Deel Immigration handles the most complex visa processing cases, including group moves. This service is available even without an entity set up in your target country. But we don’t stop at visa processing. Deel Immigration goes further and:

• Helps you and your workers stay fully compliant with all labor and immigration laws
• Provides modern tools for background checks, onboarding, fair and timely payments, policy-making, and equipment shipping
• Gives workers autonomy over document submissions and application tracking through a self-serve platform
• Provides workers with access to the services they need to settle in their new country, affordably

Curious to see how these solutions can enhance the efficiency of your employee relocations? Book a demo.