global workforce
Workers across borders
The global workforce is the total pool of workers available worldwide, or the internationally distributed employees of a particular organization.
Companies with a global workforce employ people across multiple countries: Managing a global workforce requires navigating different labor laws and time zones.
The term emphasizes how labor markets and employment have become interconnected across national boundaries.
- brain drainEmigration of skilled workers
- international tradeExchange across national boundaries
- outsourcingThird-party task delegation
- labor marketEmployment supply and demand
- gig economyWork based on temporary contracts
ILO · multinational corporations · offshoring · migration · virtual teams · multilingualism · bonded labor · child labor laws · labor exploitation · expatriates · talent acquisition · talent pipeline · skills gap · human capital · labor mobility · cultural adaptation · wage disparity · fair wages
- global workforceexpatriates, expats, virtual teams, foreign workers, remote teams
- culturesAmerican culture, African culture, Asian culture, British culture, Canadian culture
- remote workremote work, telework, remote job, telecommuting, remote worker
- globalizationglobalization, free trade, multinationals, interdependence, multinational corporations
- global businessmultinational corporations, multinationals, multinational, foreign markets, international trade