The Open World: The future of work and beyond

The Open World: The future of work and beyond

We live in a world where travel, immigration, and broader mobility changes are emerging, disrupting, and creating opportunities for employees and employers. These opportunities not only affect the business travel community, but also impact societies in new, exciting, and often unanticipated ways. We live in a world of altered expectations, changing behaviours, and fluctuating norms, where new dialogues between human resources professionals, employees, and nation-states are affecting relationships on every level. We live in a world where the future of work has never been more exciting. Yet new obstacles present unique challenges given the way we work has changed forever. Join host Ray Rackham, and thought leaders from across the travel, immigration, and broader mobility industry, as we embark on a journey of discovery; exploring ways in which we can truly inhabit "The Open World". Ray's Bio: Ray is a qualified solicitor with 20 years of experience in the private, public, legal and financial sectors. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the Inns of Court School of Law, Ray started his career holding various Government secretariat roles, including roles at the Department for International Development, the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office. Ray qualified as a solicitor in 2007 and has successfully led a series of client and corporate immigration compliance program portfolios with some of the largest, multi-national organisations, with a proven track record of change and transformation. Ray spent the last decade building a worldwide global borders and immigration program at HSBC. He regularly speaks at international conferences on the short, medium and long-term issues surrounding corporate migration policy. In 2022, Ray won Global Mobility Professional of the Year at the Forum for Expatriate Management EMEA EMMAs.

Episodes

December 21, 2023 24 mins
Return to travel has been accelerating exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic, with travel spending set to return to 2019 volumes by 2024 (two years earlier than predicted). The surge in demand for tourist and business Visas is resulting in processing delays, causing economic repercussions for the U.S. tourism sector. The need to create a frictionless experience by overcoming any legislative or procedural obstac...
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Governments worldwide are refreshing and rethinking immigration laws in order to revitalize economies, deal with skills shortages, or address aging resident populations. These revisions are opening the window for successful immigration advocates to promote change. Advocates focus on improving employment access for partners and family members of highly skilled international employees. Join host Ray Rackham in th...
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October 13, 2023 36 mins
With global business travel spending expected to surpass 2019 levels in 2024, two years sooner than previously forecast, and the resurgence of business travel very much at the top of Travel Manager priorities, how prepared are immigration professionals and visa processing centers for the influx of travelers? In a world of accelerated digitization, security considerations, and political reciprocity; where visa ...
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October 13, 2023 47 secs
We live in a world where travel, immigration, and broader mobility changes are emerging, disrupting, and creating opportunities for employees and employers. These opportunities not only affect the business travel community, but also impact societies in new, exciting, and often unanticipated ways. We live in a world of altered expectations, changing behaviours, and fluctuating norms, where new dialogues between hum...
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