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Global HR Glossary

Employing and managing a global workforce comes with a whole new vocabulary. Get to know the lingo with our glossary of global HR terms.
1099 employee
13th-month pay
360-degree survey
Absence management
Absence rate
After-tax deduction
Agent of record
Applicant tracking system (ATS)
Back pay
Big Quit
Biweekly pay
Boomerang employee
Burnout
Cloud-based HR software
Common-law employee
Compensation package
Compensation philosophy
Compensation policy
Contractor
Cost-of-living adjustment (COLA)
DEIB
Decentralized payroll
Deferred compensation
Digital nomad
Digital nomad visa
Digital presenteeism
Distributed work
Distributed workforce
Employee Self Service (ESS)
Employee assistance program (EAP)
Employee centricity
Employee experience
Employee lifetime value (ELTV)
Employee misclassification
Employee onboarding
Employee resource groups (ERGs)
Employee retention strategy
Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
Employee turnover
Employee value proposition (EVP)
Employer of Record (EOR)
Equity compensation
Equity joint venture
Exercising stock options
Flexible work
Flexible working arrangements
Foreign subsidiary
Full-time employee
Geographical discrimination
Global contractor
Global employer
Global employment solution
Global hiring platform
Global payroll
Global recruitment software
Global risk management
Global salary benchmarking
H-1B visa
HR management software
HRIS
Hybrid work
IRS form 1096
IRS form W-2
IRS form W-3
IRS form W-4
IRS form W-5
IRS form W-9
Imputed income
Incentive-based compensation
Independent contractor
International employment law
International tax compliance
Job description
Joint venture subsidiary
Labor cost
Labor laws
Letter of termination
Location-agnostic pay
Mission-driven company
Non-compete agreement
Non-employee
Nondisclosure agreement (NDA)
Nonlinear workday
Offboarding
Offshoring
Overseas entity
PTO
Partially owned subsidiary
Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) contractor
Payroll automation
Payroll outsourcing
Payroll system
Payslip
Post-tax deduction
Pre-tax deductions
Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
Proximity bias
Qualifying life event
Remote hiring solution
Remote work
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