Conclusion (Two of a series) In a previous post, “How to Understand the Lifecycle of an International Assignment,” California Corporate Housing followed “Anna Signee” in her pre-assignment stage, from recruitment and selection to the preparation for Anna and her family’s relocation to China. In this blog,...
Part 1 of 2 pieces How much do you really know about global mobility? How does a company decide to send an employee to work in another country? How does one coordinate the lifecycle of an international assignment? In an age of increasing global mobility with...
Who actually recommends the company they work for to a friend? It turns out it’s common in the San Francisco Bay Area. In Northern California, it’s normal for friends to recommend their friends to their employers. This is because they also get an incentive or...
If the San Francisco Bay Area were a country, it would be the 19th largest economy in the world, according to a new report. This is not surprising, considering it is home to the biggest tech giants in the world -- Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google...
A wise man once said, “When you cannot measure, you cannot know.” To which highly respected management leader Peter Drucker expands on, saying, “What you cannot measure, you cannot manage.” Metrics and the tools to accurately determine the effectiveness of programs and the standard of...
Do single women avoid career-enhancing actions because these actions signal undesirable traits, like ambition, to the marriage market? This was a question in a Harvard study of more than 2,200 Harvard Business School students called “Acting Wife’: Marriage Market Incentives and Labor Market Investments.” The study’s...