12 May

Posted at 21:09h in Business Travel, Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Global Mobility, Job Prospects by

Micromanagers and coronavirus don’t go well together, not when remote work and flexible office policies are the buzzwords these days. Even in San Jose, CA, where reporting for work was the norm before the pandemic, global mobility managers are offering remote positions. People wonder what...

29 Apr

Posted at 16:01h in Business Travel, Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Job Prospects, Work from Home by

California Corporate Housing hosts many guests from different countries and US cities who live like the locals and helps them adjust to the Silicon Valley way of life. Work may appear hectic inside offices but serene-like outdoors; nowadays that’s a blur. Ultimately, these guests leave...

25 Mar

Posted at 20:57h in Business Travel, Corporate Culture & Training, Expat, Global Mobility, Work from Home by

The coronavirus has indeed changed how global mobility professionals and assignees in northern California live, work, hang out with friends, take care of their health, and eat, mostly home-cooked meals these days. Having eaten inside food courts at Google’s campuses, those employees are missing their...

31 Jan

Posted at 13:38h in Business Travel, Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Expat, Global Mobility, Work from Home by

(Part 1 of 2)  As COVID-19 or coronavirus continues to spread across the globe, employers with a global presence find themselves confronting an invisible enemy with no solution in sight. The best that these companies can do is to follow the updates, guidelines, travel warnings and...

31 Dec

Posted at 13:18h in Business Travel, Corporate Housing by

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...