One man’s paradise is another’s compromised one. One can say the same thing about working abroad. ECA International, a provider of international assignment management solutions, offers location allowances to encourage professionals to take “undesirable” international assignments, undesirable being a relative word, of course. Still, global...
Part 2 Developing the future of work can be an organizational challenge and is even harder when technologies, especially new ones, come into play. Daunting enough of a topic, this extensive Deloitte study comes in two parts, the first one being “The Who, What, Where of...
Business travel is strategic investment for companies, one study after another posits, including the Harvard Business Review survey of 587 executives and managers. Instead of seeing it as a drain on company resources, business travel has been increasingly seen as a strategic investment and a form...
How happy are global companies with their current global mobility structures? The need for globally mobile employees has certainly risen by over 60 percent in recent years. However, only 18 percent of global firms are entirely happy, with 40 percent of global firms saying they...
Here’s one important advice to global mobility managers as they start 2020: help your assignees build strong friendships that they --- and perhaps, even you --- can count on. We’re not talking about enriching their social media networks either. Tagging them, twittering in their online conversations,...
How would Silicon Valley look like in the next decade? A new extensive report from the McKinsey Global Institute, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow,” sees how the labor market will be propelled by the next wave of automation...