Expat life builds critical leadership skills, as IAmExpat declares, adding that “living abroad affects the fundamental structure of self-concept: we get clearer and clearer on...
Did you hear about the Microsoft 4-day work week experiment in Japan? Many publications reported it as a roaring success, but no one seems to...
“How do you handle failure?” An Asian potential hire may be surprised to hear an American job interviewer ask this “provocative” question, but some American...
What’s wrong with this picture? Two foreigners: One partner or spouse is working, and the other is staying put at home, taking care of the...
As people born from 1995 onwards -- or Generation Z -- enter the workforce, one has to ask why global mobility managers and employers are...
“Should I let my child study in a private school, or a public one?” That’s a question most expatriates or assignees ask before flying to...
The roasted turkey amidst a table of plenty, which is surrounded by happy family members and friends, is a very familiar and welcome sight to...
How does one solve unconscious biases? In a recent day-long UX design hackathon hosted by HexHacks in New York, nearly a hundred people attempted to...
Evacuating assignees during a crisis is a challenge that global mobility managers do have to prepare for. More important, they have to constantly do it,...
Existential despair and/or emotional chaos. Those complex terms describe the debilitating reasons that are spurring tech workers in Silicon Valley, most of them millennials, to...
As a global mobility manager, you will meet assignees who think their employment prospects are not bright. However, a look at the bigger picture shows...
It can happen to any global mobility manager at any point in their career, especially if they are managing a significant number of direct reports...