Taking an overseas job assignment could help advance careers and expand learning for LGBT employees, but there are additional factors to consider that could automatically kill those opportunities.
"Relocation to countries where homosexuality is illegal may leave LGBT employees at risk of arrest and harassment," the Financial Times reports. "In those places where same-sex relationships and parental rights of LGBT parents are not recognized, it can create formidable challenges for accompanying partners and children."
Stonewell, an LGBT rights non-profit in the U.K., notes in a report that "sexual acts between people of the same sex are criminalised in more than 70 countries and only a small minority of states recognise same-sex partnerships, [or the gender identity of trans people]."