3 vital things to consider when employees work abroad

3. Tracking

“Employees increasingly need to be tracked by their employers too - even in destinations close to home. In the wake of the Paris and Brussels attacks, many organisations did not know if their employees were in the vicinity or how to find out if they needed medical assistance. The atrocities took many victims and made employers realise that they are not doing enough to protect their people.

“Employers want to be informed about everything from medical care and disease, to the prevalence of civil unrest, piracy or terrorism - before an employee deployment overseas. And, once they are abroad, they want them tracked and supported with integrated medical and security risk alerts, information and end-to-end solutions in an emergency.

“This support should be available at the swipe of a screen, or via a single call. It should be underpinned by pre-travel risk management and driven by state-of-the-art technology: giving employees in situ and their employers at home 24/7, real-time, location-specific alerts and intelligence about medical and security threats, and one-stop access to integrated emergency responses. By providing employee check-in tools, it should also enable employers to have real-time situational awareness of their people, around the clock.”