Navigating Trends in Multinational Employee Data Management

In today's technology-driven, global marketplace - where more and more businesses are collecting and transferring personal data across national borders - employee privacy and data protection have become critically important.

In today's technology-driven, global marketplace - where more and more businesses are collecting and transferring personal data across national borders - employee privacy and data protection have become critically important.

Multinational organizations face complex data privacy compliance and management issues regarding their employees, former employees and job applicants. While many multinationals are working to make their human resource management systems operate at a global level, more and more countries are initiating privacy legislation that restricts the free transfer of personal information -including employee data -across national borders. Worldwide offshoring of business and IT processes increasingly places personal data and information in the hands of remote service providers. Complex global demands for stringent security and alarming rates of consumer identity theft and cyberterrorism contribute to the drive to keep sensitive information private and secure. In an environment defined by ever-changing multinational regulations, a demand for stronger corporate governance, constant technological innovation, and an emergent understanding of the financial implications of existing risk-mitigation controls, the management of employee data privacy and security takes on new importance.

This executive briefing examines some of the emerging issues and trends a multinational organization may encounter in developing a privacy management structure strong enough to withstand existing employee privacy laws and flexible enough to comply with emerging global data privacy developments.


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