Welcome to the next episode in our series of Beyond Brexit podcasts.

Today, we're discussing the people and immigration issues.

I'm Gaynor Bagley, PWC's Head of Corporate Purpose.

On many previous episodes of these podcasts, we have talked about the need for business

to evaluate the impact on their business of various Brexit scenarios and the key areas to look at are people, trade and economics. This podcast

discusses some of the people issues businesses should be considering. Today I'm joined by Ben Wilkins,

people and organisation partner in the UK and Katrina Cooper, director in our immigration practice.

So Ben, what is the key people issues?

You are seeing your clients including their Brexit planning.

Well, Gaila, I think the first thing that clients are focusing on is data.

So that's understanding who they're people who are who potentially are affected by Brexit are.

So where their EU citizens sit in their organisation,

where their UK citizens based in the European Union are located,

what the skills those individuals have

and how valuable those skills are to the organisation.

And then look at other metrics around

that their population who are affected by Brexit.

So that's the base case, that's understanding what's at risk, what areas do you need to be

conscious of in terms of your people.

Secondly, I think clients are really focused on integrated planning, making sure that what

they do from a people perspective is linked into their broader Brexit planning. There's no point doing

these things in isolation and one's got to follow the other, the people has got to

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