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Expand or Expire is the ultimate guide to building and maintaining global workforces. It's a podcast about international expansion strategy and labor market trends, global talent, payroll management, employer of record solutions, legal compliance, and remote work. We reveal the secrets to global growth success by featuring perspectives from HR thought leaders, employees, and experts. Expand your mindset, and your business, or expire.

Expand or Expire Safeguard Global

    • Business
    • 5.0 • 7 Ratings

Expand or Expire is the ultimate guide to building and maintaining global workforces. It's a podcast about international expansion strategy and labor market trends, global talent, payroll management, employer of record solutions, legal compliance, and remote work. We reveal the secrets to global growth success by featuring perspectives from HR thought leaders, employees, and experts. Expand your mindset, and your business, or expire.

    International business expansion: Why… and why now?

    International business expansion: Why… and why now?

    Why should you pursue international business expansion—and what does it take to be successful? More often than not, there’s a single answer: people. You’re looking to hire the best global talent. Or you need to hire abroad to help you carry out your market entry strategy. 
     
    “Employers are not only looking for low-cost labor,” says Deirdre Mendez, director of the Center for Global Business at the University of Texas’ McCombs School of Business. “They may actually be looking for someone with specific expertise that they are lacking.” 
     
    In this episode, we dive into the HR considerations (yep, the people aspect) of global growth, talking to Mendez and others in the know. We cover: 
     
    Why more and more companies are expanding to hire  How hiring can make or break your global expansion strategy  What an employer of record is, and why it may be your best bet for expansion   
    Chris Hurst, director of accounting at Younique, a direct sales cosmetics company, discusses how getting hiring right was crucial to his organization’s expansion. 
     
    “When we decided to expand, we really ramped up our foreign teams with hiring people that can translate, people that can market our stuff in that language and culture, and also sales teams,” Hurst says. 
     
    We also talk to Bjorn Reynolds, CEO and founder of Safeguard Global, who pioneered the employer of record model that Hurst and others have come to rely on when expanding internationally. 
     
    “Very simply, we enable our customers to put their talent into our entities,” Reynolds says. “We manage every aspect of the HR, payroll and compliance on behalf of our end customer for that employee.” 
     
    Additional resources: 
    What is an employer of record? 
    5 considerations for your global expansion strategy 
    Your company needs to hire global talent—here's a playbook 

    • 25 min
    Trailer: Expand or Expire

    Trailer: Expand or Expire

    Introducing Expand or Expire, a new podcast from Safeguard Global, your ultimate guide to building and maintaining global workforces. It's about international expansion strategy and labor market trends, global talent, payroll management, employer of record solutions, legal compliance, and remote work. Throughout the show, we'll reveal the secrets to global growth success by featuring perspectives from HR thought leaders, employees, and experts. Expand your mindset, and your business, or expire. 
    To learn more, visit: safeguardglobal.com/podcast

    • 4 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

Gay&Sweaty ,

A podcast you didn’t know you needed!

From the start, this podcast is so well produced and edited! As a listener, feel as though you are in trusted hands because of the host’s calming/ thoughtful voice. I always appreciate actual interview audio with guests and this podcast inserts real life voices/narratives so well into the episode! I truly didn’t know I was interested in learning about how to grow a global workforce, but now I am!

Tybeeknot ,

Vital for growing companies!

Great quick listen about global expansion. Any HR leader will appreciate this. Can’t wait to hear the next episode!

jbheflin ,

Work in any way!

This is an amazing podcast! I particularly enjoy learning the reasons businesses are choosing to go global.

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