Accommodation is one of the things assignees inquire about as soon as negotiations begin. What’s the type of unit will they live in? How many rooms will it have? Will it have a balcony, a mezzanine, a veranda, or glass doors that lend a sense...
Budgets, operational expenses, salaries, taxes, and all other costs have to be documented, calculated, and analyzed Sometimes, global mobility specialists and their executive leaders pay a lot of, and admittedly needed, attention to external threats that they neglect the internal corrosion happening in their midst. Crises...
Women perform highly in international assignments because of their strong interpersonal skills The status and treatment of women in global mobility are undergoing a critical change. Many young millennial women want to be assigned to foreign posts; their number currently reach 71 percent. But only 20...
This ageless demographic is online everywhere Is global mobility -- the way people and companies are moving around the world for employment and business -- rendering labels or categorizations irrelevant? All of us, Gen-Xers, millennials and even Baby Boomers, have become more mobile, thanks to technology...
About 71 percent of millennial women are eager to be assigned to foreign posts The number of women who have been recruited for expatriate assignments have grown by almost 800 percent for the past 37 years. Women have come a long way indeed. Only three percent...
Would you believe more creative-driven offices are actually encouraging their staff to play video games to spur their artistic and design juices? The age-old practice of prohibiting employees from whacking virtual monsters or exploring the underworld in video games is turning on its head. Human...
After getting firm advice on his compensation package, type of accommodations, and possibly support for his family, the next thing that an assignee would ask the global mobility specialist recruiting him would revolve around health care benefits. He would also be very particular about his questions....
Many world events in 2016 caught companies and their global recruiting and mobility managers by total surprise. Response time was slow and uncertain, as some took a “wait-and-see” approach while others tried to make sense of the situation in order to plan more productively for...
You’ve heard that famous slogan, “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas!” You can make an exception with the Consumer Electronics Show 2017 (CES 2017) that finished with a bang in Las Vegas recently. We’re quoting The Belfast Telegraph, one among the thousands of global...
Two distinct trends will soon characterize the dynamics and decision-making in global mobility: centralization and transparency. With constant change happening in the world’s economies and political systems, coupled with the exponential development of technology, the players in the business landscape are learning how to be...