Flipping It to an International Platform

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Chicago-based Atlas has emerged in the vanguard of a different kind of PEO. Together with a dozen or so rivals such as G-P and Velocity Global, Atlas has taken the domestic service model and flipped it to an international platform.

For corporate clients—most of them small and medium in size and privately-owned—Atlas can expedite the new world of work, a high priority in an increasingly globalized economy. 

Much of Atlas's growth is fed by the success of recent globalization strategies, which indicate on average, a company sending a single employee to a new post expands to five people within a year. 

Learn more about a way for even the smallest of companies to expand abroad.

Learn Global Business Etiquette

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If you are in the process of expanding abroad, avoid cultural gaffes by learning local business etiquette in the country you are about to do business.

This article offers some good tips by business owners and experts in the trenches on how to immerse yourself in a country's culture to better understand the people, respect their ways and be sensitive about never offending.

Expanding Abroad? Avoid Cultural Gaffes

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