Overview

The gap between when costs fall due and when revenue arrives is one of the biggest barriers to scaled, responsible international recruitment. Recruitment, training, visas and travel are paid for months before a worker starts earning, and someone has to carry that cost and risk. This session features operators sharing the financial solutions and models they’ve built to address it, including shared-contribution designs, milestone-linked payments and worker finance, and what they’ve learned about distributing cost and risk more fairly between workers, employers, recruiters and investors.

Key questions

• Why is cash flow such a barrier to scaling responsible labor mobility, and who ends up carrying the cost today?
• What models are working to share cost and risk across workers, employers, recruiters and investors?
• What is the biggest challenge each operator still faces?

Who should join

Recruiters and mobility operators facing cash flow constraints, employers, investors, lenders, development finance institutions, funders, training providers, and policymakers interested in how mobility is financed.