Building Trust with Globally-Mobile Employees

Actions Employers Can Take to Improve Workplace and Work-life Outcomes

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METLIFE’S ANNUAL EXPAT EMPLOYEE BENEFIT TRENDS STUDY 2024

Delivering Employee Care on a Global Scale

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Oct 07, 2024
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Demonstrating Employee Care and Building Trust in Turbulent Times

Macroeconomic forces, such as rising medical costs and economic uncertainty, are putting heightened pressure on employers to deliver successful global programs. MetLife’s 2025 Expat Employee Benefit Trends Study examines those factors, and more, at play and implications to global assignments and benefit programs. To achieve positive returns in an ever-changing global work landscape, our research shows it's essential for employers to optimize care strategies by taking proactive measures that promote and instill trust across the global employee experience.

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The level of trust globally-mobile employees have in their employers can largely influence the success of assignments. By establishing end-to-end support, communicating proactively and frequently, and offering flexibility across the assignment experience, employers can increase trust among their globally-mobile employees, making it more likely to meet talent objectives and create a healthy, engaged global workforce. In the report, you'll find valuable recommendations that can help turn these insights into action.

Improving continuity of support throughout assignments

Globally-mobile employees can spend months preparing for an assignment before leaving and readjusting to life back home once they return. However, this is often where they feel the most undersupported by their employers. Globally-mobile employees need greater support that extends from the early stages of planning a life abroad through the return to life at home, not only during their assignment.

Communicating proactively about benefits and services

Globally-mobile employees face challenges that many employees won't ever experience. Information about protection and support to address these challenges, delivered through proactive, frequent and transparent communications, can play a significant role in improving their assignment experience.

Communicating proactively about benefits and services

Globally-mobile employees face challenges that many employees won't ever experience. Information about protection and support to address these challenges, delivered through proactive, frequent and transparent communications, can play a significant role in improving their assignment experience.

Offering more flexible benefits

Younger globally-mobile employees are reshaping the culture and future of global work and are becoming a larger segment of global employee populations. They have many unique and emerging benefits needs to feel safe and reassured while on assignment, centered around one key theme – flexibility.

Global benefits are at the heart of global strategy

Want to enhance your global program with top-tier global benefits built for mobility? MetLife Worldwide Benefits is committed to helping employers protect their globally-mobile employees – because global work requires benefits that go the distance.

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