Washington’s proposed Halting International Relocation of Employment (HIRE) Act would impose a 25% excise tax on payments to foreign workers - from captive centers to BPO partners. What FATCA did to banking, HIRE could do to GBS: flip the economics of global talent models overnight. Labor arbitrage is under direct fire, and leaders must prepare now.

What We'll Cover: 

• The HIRE Act in plain terms - what it is and why it matters 
• The fallout scenarios - reshoring, nearshore traps, provider panic, costly workarounds 
• Strategic risks - overreliance on offshore talent, weak U.S. workforce strategies, no policy muscle 
• Immediate actions - model exposure, build alternatives, craft a domestic workforce story 
• The opportunity - turning crisis into strategic relevance for GBS leaders