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HR STRATEGY


T


he view from the eighth-f loor meeting room at professional services firm Grant Thornton’s office is both arresting and inspiring. Taking in the rooftops


of Euston all the way to the Shard on the South Bank, it is also a reminder of London’s world-city status. With the close-run Brexit referendum and the negative


tenor of both the Leave and Remain campaigns still in people’s minds, the impact of the vote to leave the EU is being felt in workplaces across the country. A CIPD survey of employers carried out in the weeks after the


referendum found “increased workplace tension and division” because of the referendum’s outcome. Data from the professional body for HR and personnel and development has also highlighted Brexit-related incidents of harassment and bullying in the workplace. More than one in ten employees said that they had experienced, witnessed or heard of incidents of harassment or bullying of a political nature, and just under one in ten mentioned incidents of a racist nature. The issues of uncertainty and division, and what Brexit


could mean for talent development, attraction, retention and leadership, in the UK and internationally, are putting HR and mobility on the frontline of the issue and shaping the response.


Managing uncertainty For Susan Gregory, who manages the talent mobility needs of the leading UK business and financial adviser, which employs 4,500 people nationally across 26 offices, the referendum result’s impact on the ease with which people can move around, and on the perception of the UK as a place to live and work, remains to be seen. “I’ve worked with people living in countries other than their


own for 30 years, and I’ve seen the value their contribution can bring,” said Susan, who manages close to 200 moves a year with her team of three. “The issue now is how we deal with the fallout from what has happened.” Brexit has left many employees feeling uncertain. The CIPD


survey reported 70 per cent of employers registering concerns from staff about job security or their right to work in the UK following the vote to exit the EU. At Grant Thornton, where around 10 per cent of the current


permanent UK population is from overseas, with around 5 per cent EU nationals, responding to this understandable uncertainty has seen Susan Gregory and her team on a mission to reassure assignees.


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