Stealth expats

The Economist: “[Renault’s Carlos Ghosn and GlaxoSmithKline’s Jean-Pierre Garnier] are the most visible examples of a growing army of mobile workers who are giving human resources (HR) departments a new sort of headache: how to track where they are and when, for tax and visa purposes.”

Two perspectives:

Makes me wonder how the work I do can best support the needs of this new type of professional, considering these are the top-level managers of some of the world’s major corporations.
It’s not just CxOs ~~- highly specialized professionals (say, IAs focussed on globalization issues ;~~) ) can easily end up in the stealth expat category. How do we, who don’t have the backing of large HR/legal departments, deal with the legal/fiscal complexities that result from working in various countries?

May 4, 2005 | Archived in Globalization