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Cross-border workforce compliance trends 2025
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Is your work-from-anywhere policy compliant?

Is your work-from-anywhere policy compliant?
➡️ What does it take for a company to remain fully compliant when employees go on work-from-anywhere trips? Is an A1 certificate and visa enough? What measures should HR and travel teams take to ensure the employer's duty of care is fulfilled when employees travel?
Our experts, Pieter Manden, LLM, MBA, Co-founder of WorkFlex, and Brock Dale, Senior WorkFlex Consultant, guide you through the critical aspects of compliant work-from-anywhere policy management.
In the session, you learn about key things to consider when creating and managing your work-from-anywhere policy. 🧐

Compliance for work-from-anywhere trips: Why an A1 certificate is not enough

Compliance for work-from-anywhere trips: Why an A1 certificate is not enough
Do you think that an A1 certificate is all you need for a compliant workation? Let us prove you wrong!
In our exciting webinar, we uncover the hidden risks that many overlook. Dorothee Schweigard, our compliance expert and head of the Compliance Research Center at WorkFlex, and Sandro Günaltay, our Senior WorkFlex consultant, will explain the most important factors that are essential for a safe and compliant workation.
Find out why an A1 certificate is just the beginning and how you can protect your employees comprehensively when they go on work-from-anywhere trips. Join us and delve deep into the world of workation compliance!
🗣️ Language: German

Unlocking the Secret Costs of Unmanaged Business Trips

Unlocking the Secret Costs of Unmanaged Business Trips
Business travel is rebounding, playing a crucial role in international business expansion, can you relate? 📈 But here's the challenge: HR, Global Mobility, and Compliance teams face challenges ensuring compliance for employees on business trips!
Managing PWD notifications, invitation letters, PE and social security risks, and tracking employee travel details can be overwhelming. But neglecting compliance can result in costs of up to EUR 50 million and damage to your brand.
Check out our exclusive webinar on Business Travel Compliance!
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Together with industry experts we discussed:
👉 What's the most frightening situation a company can face in relation to business travel compliance breaches?
👉What are the strictest countries in terms of business travel compliance?
👉 What are some effective strategies to mitigate business travel compliance risks in your company?
👉 And more.
Our esteemed experts:
- Clarissa Kaiser*, Manager Global Mobility at BioNTech
- Orsolya Mochlar*, Head of International Careers at Merck Group
- Pieter Manden LLM MBA, Co-founder at WorkFlex
*All statements and opinions represent their own, not their employers.

What does the "perfect policy" for temporary work from abroad look like?

What does the "perfect policy" for temporary work from abroad look like?
Balancing between the employee interest of workations as a benefit on the one hand, and the employer compliance risks on the other hand. How to lay this down in the company policy for temporary work from abroad? What must be in the policy and what not? How would our guests change their policy if they had the opportunity to create it from scratch?
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Guest speakers:
- Sophie Kostka - Head of HR & Culture @ Enpal
- Małgorzata Miaśkiewicz - Global Mobility Principal @ Delivery Hero
- Sabine Ziesecke - Tax Partner @ PwC
- Moritz Gamon - Teamlead People Operations & Services @ IU Internationale Hochschule
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The Rise of Workations: Employer Compliance and Data Security
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The Rise of Workations: Employer Compliance and Data Security
What are the employer compliance and data security risks related to temporary work from abroad? How can employers manage & mitigate them, so that employees can enjoy this benefit beyond boundaries in a well-informed, instructed, and insured manner?
Speakers:
- Jonas Jacobsen, Data privacy lawyer at HK2 Rechtsanwälte
- Pieter Manden, Head of Trust & Employer Compliance at WorkMotion
- Patrick Koch, General manager of WorkFlex
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How to eliminate employer compliance risks related to workations?
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How to eliminate employer compliance risks related to workations?
Your employees would love to go on workations. But you are reluctant to give them the freedom to work from anywhere because of concerns about employer compliance risks. Is there a common ground? 🤔
Yes, there is! 🙌
Watch the webinar on No-risk workations led by WorkFlex Co-Founders Pieter Manden & Patrick Koch. In the webinar, we will introduce you to the groundbreaking concept of no-risk workations that protects the employer from the relevant compliance risks of workations.

Compliant workations: Your ultimate 3-step webinar guide

Compliant workations: Your ultimate 3-step webinar guide
In a series of 3 webinars, we explore everything you have to know about managing workations compliantly and efficiently together with best-in-class experts of temporary work from abroad. Join in for employer experience stories and opinion-sharing!
Episode 1: Should your company make workations a benefit? (🇩🇪 in German)
Flexibility at the workplace is among the most demanded employee benefits that help employers win the war for talent. Besides talent attraction, there are many additional bonuses to workations - e.g. improved employee satisfaction and loyalty. However many companies also fear that workations will hurt employee productivity.
Episode 2: How to get the workation compliance right? (🇬🇧 in English)
Many employers are now offering workations to employees. However, not everyone is aware of the severe employer compliance risks associated with workations, including permanent establishment, wage tax, social security, and others. In the webinar, we discuss what are the must-have HR processes and documents to manage and mitigate the risks.
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Episode 3: What workation management tool to choose? (🇩🇪 in German)
Your employees love to go on workations and they request a lot of trips. You are aware of compliance risks and acknowledge they have to be managed and mitigated. In the webinar, we discuss what tools can you use to manage the workation compliance and workation management process.
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