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With January in full swing and your first new year’s resolution likely broken, here’s one goal you can keep: stay abreast of developments to get ahead of the curve, beginning with these top 14 trends impacting multinational employers in 2014.

14 GLOBAL WORKPLACE TRENDS FOR 2014

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1. Global expansion to new jurisdictions: more focus on the MINTs and CIVETS

2. Greater competition for talent: Switzerland and Singapore top the worldwide talent competition

3. Stronger need to protect the company when your workforce is globally mobile

4. Extra focus on alternative workers: closer scrutiny in China and the EU

5. A more high-tech, mobile office: today’s workplace poses new challenges

6. Expanding employee data privacy protection: laws are changing in the EU, Malaysia, Singapore, Colombia, Mexico

7. Updates to social security, benefits and pension regulations: Japan, Ireland, Spain and others amend the retirement age; up next: China

8. New discrimination, harassment and gender equality laws: change afoot in India, Australia, Japan, EU

9. Eyes on wage and hour and misclassification: employees becoming more aware of their employer’s obligations

10. Ongoing workforce evaluation and restructuring: UK, France make it easier to downsize

11. More cross-border litigation and investigations: balancing global policies and local management

12. Global focus on anti-corruption and whistleblowing: financial incentives encourage employees to expose wrongs

13. Increasingly global M&As: UK’s proposed TUPE reform

14. Unions become more global: their increasingly global ambitions