Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 3 · Enterprise Structures and the Global Model
Modelling a global organisation
Lesson 24 of 175 · 5 min
This is where you build a model, and the order matters because most people start in the wrong place. Start from the employment footprint. Not the revenue footprint, not the office footprint — where you employ people. Those three differ more often than clients expect, and the difference is where the surprises live: an organisation can sell into a country without employing anybody there, can have an office that is a registered branch of a foreign entity, and can employ three people through an employer of record, which is a different arrangement again. So the first question is not "where do you operate"; it is "in which countries do you have an employment relationship with a human being?" Then six steps, in order. Countries of employment. Legal entities per country — from the client's legal or company secretarial function, not from HR, who frequently do not know, and not from…
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