Your employee experience isn't global. It's regional. And the gap is costing you.
A study of 825 companies across the S&P 500, Euronext 100, and Nikkei 225 reveals why the same company can have a healthy workforce in one country and a struggling one in another, and what to do about it.
Most global EX strategies run on one playbook for every market. This research shows why that fails. Drawing on 16.5 million public data points from over 360,000 sources, it maps the real drivers of employee experience across Japan, Europe, and the United States, then tests those patterns against three companies operating in all three: AbbVie, Toyota, and Schneider Electric.
The finding that should stop any people leader: companies with strong employee experience deliver 5 to 36% higher total shareholder returns than their peers. Where your people work changes everything about how you get there.
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Two Formats, Same Research
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- The research brief: six pages, the headline findings, built for a fast scan
- The full white paper: the complete method, three company case studies, and the benchmark analysis behind the numbers
What's Inside
A practical read for HR, people analytics, and organizational development leaders running EX across more than one market. Inside you'll find:
- Why colleagues are the universal foundation of employee experience in every region, and why that makes peer relationships table stakes rather than a differentiator
- The brand and reputation gap that US employers are leaving on the table: a top EX driver for 45% of Japanese and 37% of European companies, but just 4% in the US
- How flexible working means three different things in three markets, from a modernization signal in Japan to a point of friction in the US
- Why communication failure is the single most consistent blocker worldwide, showing up as top-down in Europe and bottom-up in the US
- Three company case studies showing how far a real organization's profile can drift from its regional peers, and how to tell a market-wide problem from a company-specific one
- A benchmark method for deciding where investment actually generates competitive advantage, rather than spreading it evenly across problems that aren't equal

Who Is It For?
If you run employee experience, people analytics, or talent strategy across multiple regions and you're tired of composite engagement scores that can't tell you what to do next, this is written for you. The research covers large listed companies, but the principle applies to any employer with people in more than one market: the question isn't whether EX matters, it's where to act first.
The same public data behind this study can map your organization against the competitors your people are actually weighing up. Download the research, then talk to us about a tailored scan for your business and your peers.
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