If there’s one thing human resource specialists and corporate housing providers like California Corporate Housing have observed, it’s this: the prevalence of three to four generations of talents with unique skills and diverse backgrounds working shoulder-to-shoulder. This phenomenon goes beyond the avuncular executive mentoring a newbie...
Global mobility specialists find their tasks easier if the assignee he has hired is working as part of one monocultural team. For example, he brings in an Asian or European programmer to work in a retail store trying to find its digital footprint somewhere in...
The so-called “digital nomadic” lifestyle was once dismissed as a millennial’s escape from responsibility or a Baby Boomer’s one last hurrah at realizing his failed dreams. Their age differences may create a huge generational gap between them, but both sets of adventurers are bound by...
As a global mobility specialist, one of your priorities is the productivity of your foreign talent. His performance matters a great deal to the company, and ultimately management will measure and weigh the advantages it brings to the organization once assessment and budget renewal time...
Making foreign and American talents adjust to the companies that hire them are enough to keep global mobility specialists on their toes. Assignees have to be both a good corporate and culture fit that another concern is overlooked: generation gap. Tech-savvy, social-media-oriented millennials will make up...
Global mobility specialists are reeling just a bit from the couple of shock waves that the industry has recently received from the Trump administration’s emerging policies -- or positions -- on immigration. The first salvo came when the new government announced that it would slow...
Have a smart home device in every room like a coffee maker that automatically brews your favorite drink and then greets you a cheery good morning as you power yourself up for work. Or how about a smart refrigerator that automatically notifies you via text...
Many arguments have been made about the advantages and benefits the H-1B visa have provided the American economy, but one fact still has to be mentioned. That pillar of American sports culture known as the National Basketball Association (NBA), would have played a very different...
It’s a situation that can give a global mobility specialist a panic attack. There’s an outbreak of epidemic in one of your allied countries, or flights have been grounded in one of its cities because of a terrorist attack. You learn that one of the...
Proximity to job opportunities and digital hubs. A taste of what the locals experience. A touch of magic introduced by today’s technology. In a nutshell, those are the trends developing in the global service apartment industry in 2017. Global mobility specialists should be on the...