Consumer technology products may no longer be confined to entertainment activities, as the current pandemic may ease their use for the corporate world, serving as vital instruments for people looking for a more productive way of working away from their office. Tit for tat, corporate...
All of a sudden, the global mobility manager is told that they and their team, which includes assignees, have to work from home indefinitely. Insulation is one way to protect the staff from the infection of the COVID-19 virus. The fewer employees on-ground physically present...
To say that the crisis posed by COVID-19 aka the coronavirus is unprecedented is an understatement. Entire nations like France, Spain, Malaysia, and Italy --- which arguably is the hardest-hit next to China --- are on total lockdown; flights in and out of these countries...
Global mobility is finally seeing its place in the corporate sun. Many American companies have looked outward as a project or a part-time department, determining for themselves the value it brings them as the work expands. As more companies establish their foothold in other countries,...
It has been said that data is the new oil of the information age; making clear sense of the incalculable amounts of facts, figures, and statistics that enter the organization. Leveraging it to guide your business insights has been compared to digging unfathomable levels of...
The advocates of blockchain technology claim that it will revolutionize the world the same way that the internet did. It will make global transactions more transparent and yet secure, speed up communications and the transfer of data, and do away with the dozens of inefficient...
(Part 1 of 2) As COVID-19 or coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, employers with a global presence find themselves confronting an invisible enemy with no solution in sight. The best that these companies can do is to follow the updates, guidelines, travel warnings and...
Individualistic to the point of narcissistic. Personal relationships that suffer because of too much time spent on their smart devices. No time or desire to build a family. Lack of concern for their elderly. These are the characteristics that many people have associated with the...
A grumbling employee is a headache. Half a dozen of them griping on their private messengers is a problem. An entire team or department with unresolved issues is an explosion waiting to happen. The proverbial lone voice in the wilderness grows into a pack because of...
If global mobility managers want to bring out the best from their assignees, they have to start acting more like growth coaches instead of as the traditional performance managers. The same holds true for human resource leaders with the dozens, if not hundreds, of employees...