Coping strategies for talent mobility post-Brexit

Brexit is going to present businesses with a huge challenge: notably in terms of retaining and finding the best global talent for their organisation, as well as encouraging British staff to find work abroad in branch offices worldwide.

With news reports of a ‘Brexit brain drain’, one recent study claimed as many as one million EU nationals working in the UK are considering leaving the country because of Brexit.

This particular KPMG survey of 2,000 EU citizens working in the UK also noted that 50 per cent of those planning to quit Britain post-Brexit were workers with PhDs and 39 per cent with postgraduate degrees. With half of those surveyed claiming that they felt less welcomed and valued in the UK since the result of the historic June 2016 referendum.

If your business employs staff in other EU countries, EU citizens in the UK or if you hope to expand into Europe in the future, then Brexit has thrown something of a curveball your way. So what are the coping strategies that companies faced with these massive uncertainties need to know about to help them deal with talent mobility in a post-Brexit era?