If you want to get an edge in getting the best talent in a very competitive market, better check that your company site has been configured to do help recruit talents using their smartphone, other than your site. That means that it has a career...
Soft skills, data literacy, and dexterity in using and teaching the latest online learning platforms. Those are the three trends that will shape global learning and development in 2020, says The Training Industry. The 21st century has been known as the era that will demand lifelong...
The march of the workplace toward inclusivity is making leaders more sensitive about certain behavior and words that can negatively impact a colleague and/or all those around them, regardless of the intention of the one doing them. After all, nobody wants to be accused of...
Many expats are presumed to be mature enough to fend for themselves. But maturity is one thing and not having emotional support is another. And yet, not many global mobility managers, recruiters, and other HR leaders see the problem coming their way. Neglect and oversight can...
The mere mention of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation makes global mobility managers and human resource leaders anxious. They fear that these latest innovations will replace them or make them redundant. One constant argument is that their own managers and executives, who write their checks,...
“Learning should never stop --- especially not in the digital age.” That quote, or ideas similar to it, is very popular these days, at a time of disruption when the most relevant knowledge and skills of the present are threatened with obsolescence by tomorrow. But...
One man’s paradise is another’s compromised one. One can say the same thing about working abroad. ECA International, a provider of international assignment management solutions, offers location allowances to encourage professionals to take “undesirable” international assignments, undesirable being a relative word, of course. Still, global...
Part 2 Developing the future of work can be an organizational challenge and is even harder when technologies, especially new ones, come into play. Daunting enough of a topic, this extensive Deloitte study comes in two parts, the first one being “The Who, What, Where of...
Business travel is strategic investment for companies, one study after another posits, including the Harvard Business Review survey of 587 executives and managers. Instead of seeing it as a drain on company resources, business travel has been increasingly seen as a strategic investment and a form...
How happy are global companies with their current global mobility structures? The need for globally mobile employees has certainly risen by over 60 percent in recent years. However, only 18 percent of global firms are entirely happy, with 40 percent of global firms saying they...