Meeting the needs of an increasingly global economy and customer base is likely a priority for your organization, whichever sector you're in. But most companies aren't fully leveraging the most powerful resource to achieve this; their own people.

Companies continue to grapple with diverse cultures, languages, time zones, and skill sets within their own employee base. The good news is that innovation in corporate benefits has made it easier than ever to start unifying the mosaic of backgrounds within the workplace, enabling your organization to think through a global lens when it comes to delivering a product or service across the world.

Having built Preply, an online language training platform, from three employees to a team of over 600 in the last 10 years, we've worked hard to strengthen our community of over 62 nationalities. Here are three of the transformational employee benefits we've learned about along the way.

Global mobility and the impact on work-life balance

In a post-pandemic era of complete comfort with remote collaboration, the value of sending employees to work abroad has become an unsung corporate benefit. Inviting staff to travel overseas and work in a different office goes beyond fostering cohesion and camaraderie amongst employees. Whether a short business trip or a 2-3 year assignment in a new office, employees consider these opportunities a significant lifestyle perk; a unique chance to experience a new country and get a taste of what it's like to work in a different culture.