Change Management and Restructuring Projects
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Head of Employment Belgium
Belgium
I am Head of Employment in our International HR Services group in Brussels with over 30 years' experience of advising on contentious and non-contentious issues in employment and benefits, including high profile employment litigation, boardroom advisory work, strategic change management, industrial relations, compliance and reward issues.
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The ‘roaring twenties’ of this century have left the business world in constant turmoil. After emerging from the pandemic, geopolitical tensions and the resulting economic uncertainty have pushed companies to rethink their organisational structures and rework their operating models and supply chains. Digitalisation and automation of the workforce is now at the forefront as businesses respond to rapidly changing customer needs. All of this requires companies to focus strategically on change management, as well as major workforce restructurings and reorganisations.
Our International HR Services team has considerable experience advising and assisting clients in all sectors of industry on the employment-related aspects of change management and complex workforce restructurings across multiple jurisdictions, including on projects involving cross-border redundancy and cost-cutting programmes; transformational organisational redesign; moving functions to low-cost jurisdictions and more.
How can Bird & Bird help you?
- Cross-border restructuring guide: International businesses must navigate a patchwork of laws and cultural sensitivities when planning for restructuring projects. We have prepared an overview of these issues based on the extensive expertise of our International HR Services team.
- Strategic employment consulting services: We are leaders in advising on early strategic planning to help companies develop a coherent plan to implement workforce changes, including assessing the overall structure of project implementation, cost, timing and cultural considerations, contingency planning and staff communications strategy.
- twoBirds Access: Technology is integral to how we deliver complex projects enabling us to drive efficiencies and give our clients greater visibility and strategic oversight. Our twoBirds Access tool can be used to help streamline and project manage complex international restructuring projects.
Access the Cross-border restructuring guide
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