New Atlas HXM data scoring 100+ countries finds that visa accessibility and hiring conditions are weakly related.
CHICAGO, IL, UNITED STATES, October 15, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Europe is one of the easiest regions in the world to move people into but one of the harder places to employ them, according to the first results from the Atlas HXM Global Workforce Indexes, launched today by Atlas HXM, the global workforce platform built on compliance.
The three indexes score more than 130 countries and territories on hiring conditions, work visa access and contractor compliance. Across the countries scored on both, hiring and visa scores show only a weak correlation of 0.32, which shows that a country's standing on one workforce question says very little about its standing on another. The United States shows how far the two can diverge, ranking as a top-five hiring destination but ranks 100th of 136 on visa mobility.
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Twelve of the top 25 countries on the Atlas HXM Visa Mobility Index (AVMI) are in the EU, and four more are non-EU European neighbors. Denmark and Finland lead the index, with France also in the top ten. The AVMI scores the work visa routes open to people from outside a country, so within the EU it measures access for non-EU nationals.
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