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Is your people strategy ready for the future of mobility?

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EY Canada

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5 minute read 07 Apr. 2023
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Authored by: Jo-Anne Van Strien, Chistopher Gordon

An integrated approach to manage mobility can be a powerful step toward success in an evolving business and regulatory environment.

Getting the right people to the right place at the right time will look very different in a post-pandemic world. Taking an integrated approach to how your organization manages mobility can be a powerful step toward succeeding in a business and regulatory environment that’s still evolving. Achieving that means first recognizing that many things have changed — and will continue to change.

Borders will ultimately open. Business travel will resume. But the drivers that typically shaped decisions around travel, secondments and work locations have changed. Regulations and requirements — including vaccinations and quarantines — are poised to evolve short-term business travel into lengthy and complex logistical processes. Work-from-home alternatives may expand to work from anywhere based on employee preferences and desires.

In an effort to attract and retain talent, this could mean that your workforce will span a bigger geographic footprint, impacted by jurisdictional global employment laws, corporate tax implications and payroll considerations. How and where people work now represents new risks tied to health, safety and so much more.

Considering the following questions now may help position you from what was to what could be.

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Does work from anywhere work for everyone?

With 9 out of 10 employees saying they want flexibility in where and when they work, competing for talent now means taking a purposeful approach to remote working and virtual teaming. This approach can also be applied to strategically address existing and potential talent gaps. Your next great hire will want to know whether you embrace a work from anywhere mindset, and how that will impact their career.

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Can accessing data easily mean navigating mobility effectively?

With nearly two-thirds of employees wanting to resume business travel post-pandemic, information on where your people are — quickly and at all times — has never been more important. Ensuring your organization’s business traveler ecosystem is fully integrated through intelligent streamlined digital platforms can help you overcome these challenges. From who’s ready to travel, to where in your network the health hotspots are emerging, compiling, maintaining and segregating data seamlessly and quickly is now crucial to decision-making.

 

Source EY’s Work Re-Imagined Study 2021

 

Will transforming mobility today fuel success tomorrow?

 

Ensuring mobility programs are fit for purpose means connecting them to the broader talent strategy. Doing so can unlock benefits that stretch across the organization — from enhancing diversity to improving your bottom line. The scope, reach and responsibility of this function is set to grow exponentially as businesses dive into recovery mode.

 

Mobility’s value-add now extends well beyond any given business unit, strategically enabling achievement of the goals and objectives of your overall talent initiatives. Transforming your mobility program to be nimble in holistically addressing new and emerging business risks and complexities can lead to increased stakeholder confidence, talent attraction and retention and enhance your overall business reputation.

 

Mobility is evolving. How will you proactively position your organization for the future of mobility?

 

What you do next counts. This moment could be a turning point — one that creates opportunities to approach mobility with integration in mind, building diversity and flexibility into your talent pool while mitigating the increased risk and better management of costs.

 

Let’s talk about how our team of Integrated Mobility professionals can help you build a comprehensive mobility strategy and approach.

Summary

Taking an integrated approach to how your organization manages mobility can be a powerful step to succeeding in an evolving world. Asking the right questions now can position your organization for long-term success in the future of mobility.

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EY
EY Canada
Multidisciplinary professional services organization
Related topics
Workforce
Wealth and asset management

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