Companies facing talent shortages have an increasingly large world in which to look for workers. But one of the biggest workforce challenges emerging in 2026...
Global mobility is becoming too important—and too complex—to operate as a standalone function. Labor shortages, demographic change, skills mismatches and increasingly international talent markets are...
Global mobility has spent decades solving the problem of moving people across borders. But another problem has proved surprisingly difficult: moving their qualifications with them. A...
For decades, global mobility has been built around a straightforward premise: when talent and opportunity are in different places, move the talent. A company needs an...
A regional conflict closes airspace overnight. Employees traveling on business cannot return home. An international assignee suddenly needs to leave a country with family members...
An employee working in Paris accepts a three-year assignment in Silicon Valley. Her salary remains tied partly to France, but the move to Northern California...
The clean-energy transition is usually discussed in terms of technology: solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, electric vehicles and new transmission lines. But every new project...
Global mobility is entering a more strategic phase. For years, programs were judged largely by whether employees moved compliantly, arrived on time and stayed within...
Lump-sum relocation policies have become an appealing answer to rising costs and administrative complexity. Employers receive a predictable expense, mobility teams manage fewer service providers,...
Global immigration is not moving neatly toward either openness or closure. A more selective system is emerging instead: governments are tightening enforcement for many travelers...
Americans are relocating less often, and housing is becoming one of the biggest barriers separating workers from better opportunities. The share of people who changed...
Global mobility leaders are confronting an uncomfortable equation. The talent companies need is becoming harder to find, yet moving that talent across borders is becoming...