For decades, global mobility has been built around a straightforward premise: when talent and opportunity are in different places, move the talent. A company needs an engineer in California, a finance executive in Singapore or a project leader in London, so the employee relocates. Global mobility...
A regional conflict closes airspace overnight. Employees traveling on business cannot return home. An international assignee suddenly needs to leave a country with family members in tow. A new government restriction complicates immigration status just as the company is trying to move employees somewhere safer. None...
An employee working in Paris accepts a three-year assignment in Silicon Valley. Her salary remains tied partly to France, but the move to Northern California comes with housing assistance, tax support and other benefits designed to make an international assignment financially workable. Now consider a deceptively...
The clean-energy transition is usually discussed in terms of technology: solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, electric vehicles and new transmission lines. But every new project creates a less visible requirement. People have to build it. And increasingly, the workers with the right skills are not...
Global mobility is entering a more strategic phase. For years, programs were judged largely by whether employees moved compliantly, arrived on time and stayed within budget. Those fundamentals still matter, but business leaders increasingly want to know what mobility made possible: faster market entry, access...
Lump-sum relocation policies have become an appealing answer to rising costs and administrative complexity. Employers receive a predictable expense, mobility teams manage fewer service providers, and employees gain freedom to decide how their relocation funds are spent. But simplicity for the company can create complexity for...
Global immigration is not moving neatly toward either openness or closure. A more selective system is emerging instead: governments are tightening enforcement for many travelers and workers while creating faster, more attractive pathways for the talent, investment and skills they value most. For employers, this means...
Americans are relocating less often, and housing is becoming one of the biggest barriers separating workers from better opportunities. The share of people who changed residences fell to 11.8% in 2024, down from 12.1% the previous year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s latest geographic...
Global mobility leaders are confronting an uncomfortable equation. The talent companies need is becoming harder to find, yet moving that talent across borders is becoming significantly more expensive. Fragomen’s 2026 Worldwide Immigration Trends Report describes a market shaped by geopolitical instability, greater compliance pressure, persistent skills...
For much of the last decade, workplace conversations revolved around FOMO—the Fear of Missing Out. It captured an era driven by social media, constant connectivity, and the pressure to seize every opportunity. Now, a different acronym is defining the modern workforce: FOBO—Fear of Becoming Obsolete. Unlike...