Once deemed a low-volume activity, international assignments have certainly peaked with many global mobility professionals these days constantly on their toes, making sure the talents they recruit are well taken care of in a business environment that has become increasingly global. Growth areas like the BRIC...
Technology helps global mobility specialists deploy talents, but how does one use it? Let us count the ways by which Pwc has done it over the years. It also boils down to being cost efficient as possible. It’s what the firm calls future-proofing your mobility...
By Dennis Clemente Not too long ago, multinationals run global offices like nobody else’s business. They hired people from every corner of the world, if they were not setting up shop at least. Then the new tech economy happened and introduced many new players, all eager...
By Dennis Clemente If you ask us, the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) show this week should have an actual home demonstration somewhere in, say, Silicon Valley. It would be simultaneous with the Las Vegas-sponsored exhibition, so for those who can’t make the trip to the...
It’s been nearly a year since millennial travel professionals converged at the Onyx Room at the Park Hyatt New York to talk about the future of travel. It was the inaugural Young Travel Professionals Future Travel Lab conference and the topic was the future of...
What do assignees (eg. staff being relocated) like to have in their corporate apartments but were afraid or, say, just too polite to ask their employers? It so happens that there are still assignees out there who are not comfortable making demands for their corporate housing...