A host country’s employee or boss can be unwelcoming to foreigners but unfathomable as it may sound, your assignee, a foreign national who was once used to living within his own culture, may also have ingrained biases and prejudices against other beliefs, work practices, and...
Retirement is giving away to unretirement, as senior members in the workforce, even executives, realize they prefer to stay on in the workplace instead of just collecting their retirement pay and sailing off into the sunset. Unretirement means staying active in the workplace, either as a...
Family will always play a vital role in your assignee’s performance. How his or her kids adjust to the new country of employment can affect the way he does his job. A preteen who cannot find friends in the new middle school or an adolescent...
Global mobility specialists are leaders on an international scale. You may not feel that at times, and your executive might not tell you that frequently, but it is the truth. Think about it. You are the one who makes the decisions which assignees to hire...
Retention of talent has become tougher especially in a job (or project) market which is becoming increasingly global. Assignees or foreign workers use their adeptness with social media, job sites, and other internet tools to land them top-paying jobs in other countries. The United States, while...
Relocation costs are always a top concern of global mobility specialists. It’s not just the movement of the assignee’s possessions, from one country or city to another, that can take a huge chunk out from their budget. What can add to the expenditures, and take...