Guide
How to Overcome Labor Shortages: A Guide for Employers
Global hiring

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Key takeaways
- The global labor shortage isn’t a temporary market disruption — it’s a permanent shift in the way job seekers apply for roles and businesses source and hire candidates. Everyone must adapt their recruitment processes or risk falling behind more agile competitors.
- Developing a global hiring strategy can help you tap into foreign talent pools and access hard-to-find expertise.
- Global hiring involves a degree of complexity. Deel can simplify this and reduce the barrier to entry through our combination of employment, payroll, and immigration services.
Who will benefit from this guide?
- Fast-growing businesses that need to fill job openings and scale headcount quickly but are running into hiring bottlenecks
- Mid-sized firms that have outgrown local talent pools and need access to specialized skills
- Organizations experiencing poor work life balance, low job satisfaction, and high turnover due to prolonged understaffing
- Multinational companies managing complex workforce needs across multiple regions
What’s inside?
Our guide starts by exploring the root causes of the tight labor market and its impact on businesses of all sizes. We discuss how staff shortages can decrease productivity, limit growth, and cause a toxic work environment if left unchecked.
We look at some tactics businesses have been using to fill open positions, such as remote work, training programs, and investments in automation. While these may provide short-term relief, we acknowledge their limitations.
Then our guide discusses how most organizations must completely rethink their recruitment processes to overcome the labor shortage. We look at how a comprehensive global hiring can be the long-term solution you need to overcome staff shortages without competing for candidates and inflating compensation packages.