A couple years ago when Gonzalo Guzman was working as an anti-corruption in-house counsel for GlaxoSmithKline, the company included in its compliance protocol that general managers in each country ask employees to use government services online if possible, rather than engage in person.

Employees and the British company loved the idea, Guzman recounted, because it meant fewer face-to-face meetings over visas, customs, taxes, licenses or other items where a government official could demand a bribe.