Karen Hale - Global Mobility Is Becoming a Workforce Strategy - Most Companies Haven’t Caught Up

Karen Hale, Global Mobility Strategy Director @ IndeedGlobal mobility has spent years being treated as an operational function: move the employee, manage immigration, handle relocation, control costs.Karen Hale sees something much bigger.In this episode, the Global Mobility Strategy Director at Indeed joins AJ to unpack how mobility is evolving into a strategic workforce lever that connects talent acquisition, retention, career development, workforce planning, employee experience, and global expansion.Karen breaks down why companies still struggle to measure the true ROI of moving talent, why critical workforce data remains fragmented across HR systems and external partners, and why career progression after a move deserves far more attention than it receives today. The conversation also explores how AI could finally help mobility leaders connect those fragmented data points and give executives a clearer picture of whether their talent investments are actually working.But the episode goes beyond technology and analytics. Karen brings the conversation back to the human reality behind mobility: families changing countries, employees rebuilding their lives, spouses and children adjusting to unfamiliar environments, and the responsibility organizations carry long after the plane lands.For HR, Talent, People Analytics, Immigration, and Global Mobility leaders, this is a conversation about a bigger question:What changes when we stop thinking about global mobility as moving people and start thinking about it as moving talent, careers, and the business forward?