Lost in Translation

What fluency in global hiring and payroll looks (and sounds) like.

Every country wrote its own employment laws as an answer to a different history — and the concepts underneath them don’t translate into English. Here are fifteen, from fifteen countries you may already operate in.

  • 15 employment concepts with no English equivalent — from Japan’s karoshi to Mexico’s reparto de utilidades
  • The history behind each one — the revolution, bargain, or reform that wrote it into law
  • What it costs to miss — the back-pay, fines, and lawsuits that ambush foreign employers
  • Fifteen countries you may already hire or pay in — Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Brazil, and more

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