There are a lot of assignees who live and work in San Jose, Northern California mostly because of the Silicon-Valley connection. Facebook, Google, Microsoft and the dozens of tech startups continue to attract and employ talents from all parts of the world. These foreign nationals...
One of our previous blogs discussed the changing shape of the modern family, and it is a transformation that global mobility specialists should recognize and plan for. To recap, the traditional expatriate family that is typical composed of a nuclear unit of the father, mother, and...
One element that has made the Bay Area Mobility Management (BAMM) continue to thrive is that the members can celebrate their collective wins, despite (or perhaps because of) the spirit of healthy competition. That was the takeaway of the attendees in the recent BAMM annual...
Imagine if we lived in a world run by driverless cars that navigate us through crowded streets, smart security systems that filter strangers from familiar faces (computer vision, anyone?), and AI-powered garbage disposal units that advise us we haven’t done our trash segregation properly. That...
It is not surprising that technologies that can cut through boundaries are beginning to play an important part in global mobility. Long before the internet became a household fixture, companies had been sending their best people to other countries as expatriates. At the same time,...
An assignee and their beloved pet are not easily parted. This also holds true for almost all talents, especially expatriates who treat their dog or cat as family members. That’s why assignee and expatriate alike would welcome any compensation package that would allow them to...