Many of the largest tech firms in the San Francisco Bay Area have decided to have their employees work from home indefinitely due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Microsoft implemented a standard where most employees, whose roles don’t require them to be onsite, are working half...

Part 1 of 2  From a previous post, California Corporate Housing mentioned how big names in the tech industry publicly announced their plans on keeping a remote workforce for the long haul. Earlier this year, two Gartner, Inc. surveys revealed what other business leaders’ plans of...

Global mobility managers face two challenges these days: solving different relocation cases that have risen and evaluating their mobility plans to improve employee experience in their companies. For them, it feels like putting out fire while building a new office at the same time. Following the...

The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed the business world, but what hasn’t changed is the importance of talent management. In fact, the pandemic has only amplified talent management’s contribution in countering the effects it has caused, especially with regard to a company’s workforce. What has changed,...

Human resource and global mobility managers are aware that more thought is required when hiring talents from another city or country, with family members and dependents in tow, especially in the current health crisis. So what are the steps that global mobility managers have to...

Global mobility managers have been quick to acknowledge technology’s role in the improvement and streamlining of tedious processes of talent mobility. But what many may not have noticed, even with widespread acceptance, is the fact that companies can still be hesitant to take action in...

One of our blogs had discussed the importance of creating a culture of care for employees and assignees, especially during these troubled times. Despite the hundred-mile distance formed by work-from-home scenarios, they have to be able to feel and sense that the organization---and the global...