“How much of my pay do I really bring home after taxes?” That is the question voiced in its various forms by employees or assignees alike. Ultimately, a large part of an assignee’s satisfaction at work boils down to how much of their hard-earned pay they...
Companies known as “employers of record” (EOR) started garnering attention a few years ago when corporations started to outsource human resource (HR) work to them that was related to freelancers and project-based hires. According to CPA Practice Advisor, these EOR were given tasks to form...
It has become a mobile world, and employers and global mobility specialists should run with the pace or risk getting left behind. Full-time employees and assignees alike will be spending more of their time outside the brick-and-mortar office to close deals, network with clients, or...
Lost luggages, the inconvenience of always watching out that nobody steals them under your nose, and the hassle and stress of dragging them while you’re rushing off to the terminal gate---all these minor travel inconveniences may soon be a thing of the past. Travel specialists,...
In suspending the expedited processing of the H-1B Visa, which takes effect on April 3, representatives of the current administration attributed the reasons to a need to sort out and resolve the backlog of applications that go back as far as two years. Detractors of...
Out of all the cities in the United States, which do you think assignees prefer to work and live in? That’s New York City and San Francisco in California (and thereabouts). Outside of the U.S., Munich and Berlin in Germany come to mind. Then there’s two...
Last February 27, California Corporate Housing attended the conference hosted by the Corporate Housing Providers Association (CHPA) as it tackled the challenges in the housing business sector and the innovations and trends that industry players can expect to happen and should respond to. The event...
There are a lot of assignees who live and work in San Jose, Northern California mostly because of the Silicon-Valley connection. Facebook, Google, Microsoft and the dozens of tech startups continue to attract and employ talents from all parts of the world. These foreign nationals...
One of our previous blogs discussed the changing shape of the modern family, and it is a transformation that global mobility specialists should recognize and plan for. To recap, the traditional expatriate family that is typical composed of a nuclear unit of the father, mother, and...
One element that has made the Bay Area Mobility Management (BAMM) continue to thrive is that the members can celebrate their collective wins, despite (or perhaps because of) the spirit of healthy competition. That was the takeaway of the attendees in the recent BAMM annual...