Multinational companies based in the Netherlands regularly employ expatriates to manage business expansion and development, foster culture during M&A transitions, or ensure the best talent is leveraged within the company. This can involve sending key employees to other parts of the world for extended periods of time. Such employees require expanded health and risk benefits, to ensure access to care and coverage on a global basis.
If you are an employer, it is important to offer compliant, competitive and financially sustainable global benefits coverage. It is also necessary to partner with vendors best positioned to support your unique expatriate population. Offering suitable benefits for short-term and long-term international business travelers also helps to satisfy an employer’s duty-of-care obligations.
Our holistic approach in consulting with multinational clients also extends to other programs and services for IMEs, including evacuation and assistance services, global employee assistance and wellbeing programs, and global telehealth services. We also work in collaboration with our international retirement plan consultants for off-shore retirement pension/savings plans.
What we do
In today’s complex and compliance-driven insurance environment, effectively implementing or managing an expatriate benefits plan can be complicated. Our experienced consultants are uniquely positioned to:
- Provide industry-leading advisory and support services for the development, implementation and ongoing governance of healthcare and risk benefit strategies for international assignees and business travelers
- Offer continuing guidance on compliance factors that impact these benefit programs, as well as recommendations based on competitive practice and industry benchmarking
- Advise on mitigating unique risks of expatriate assignments by addressing issues such as duty of care and evacuation and assistance
- Secure appropriate and competitive pricing, supported by the teams’ financial acumen and leverage with the leading expatriate insurers
Contact
“Global mobility remains a critical driver of business growth, skills transfer and talent development, requiring employers to carefully balance rising costs with comprehensive healthcare, wellbeing and duty-of-care support for internationally mobile employees.”Pam EnrightManaging Director, Expatriate Benefits Solutions
Why WTW?
Through our years of experience and dedicated global teams, we specialize in addressing the unique challenges faced by organizations with internationally mobile employees. We tailor our expatriate benefits solutions to your organization's unique needs, working side by side with our Global Benefits Management team to ensure that your expat benefits solutions are aligned to strategic global activities.
Operating globally through our centers of excellence, with over 3,000 programs under management worldwide, we ensure alignment and compliance, while also identifying opportunities to improve benefits programs by leveraging the world's leading expatriate benefit providers.
Global Benefits Management
Benefits for internationally mobile employees are a key component of multinational organizations’ approach to Global Benefits Management (GBM). Our teams align our global consulting services alongside other strategic GBM activities.Benefits for internationally mobile employees are a key component of multinational organizations’ approach to Global Benefits Management (GBM). Our teams align our global consulting services alongside other strategic GBM activities.
Market developments
We provide monitoring and advisory services on the ever-changing compliance requirements for expatriate benefit programs, helping employers maintain compliance, manage plan and vendor changes and protect global employees.We provide monitoring and advisory services on the ever-changing compliance requirements for expatriate benefit programs, helping employers maintain compliance, manage plan and vendor changes and protect global employees.
Comprehensive data and analytics
We conduct a biennial survey that focuses on health, risk and related programs for expatriates and international business travelers. We also manage a specialized database to provide market practices by region, industry and IME categories.We conduct a biennial survey that focuses on health, risk and related programs for expatriates and international business travelers. We also manage a specialized database to provide market practices by region, industry and IME categories.
Global breadth, local depth
With over 3,000 programs under management worldwide, our dedicated teams of experts operate globally through centers of excellence (COEs) in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific.With over 3,000 programs under management worldwide, our dedicated teams of experts operate globally through centers of excellence (COEs) in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific.
