05 May In Quarantine Mode, Americans are in Language-Learning Mood

Posted at 16:25h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Global Mobility, Language Learning, Work from Home by Ray [social_share]

The COVID-19 pandemic has clearly had an interesting effect on some Californians, especially for those who are quarantined at home or who at least have spent more time at home than outdoors. One could say, people are discovering how to do things they’ve never done...

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29 Apr Repatriation After Contract Ends is One Thing, Going Home Because of COVID-19 is Another

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

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...

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20 Apr In Reskilling, Blended Work-Learn Model is Next Challenge

Posted at 17:19h in Corporate Culture & Training, Global Mobility by Ray [social_share]

Part 2  Are we all not noticing the blending of work and life? It used to be that employees only needed to devote 9-to-5 to their job, but with people working remotely and at home, is the blurring work and life -- and yes, even time...

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16 Apr Reskilling Needed as Transformation is Now an Everyday Reality 

Posted at 21:37h in Corporate Culture & Training, Expat, Global Mobility by Ray [social_share]

(Part 1 of 2)  Talent acquisition is going to see a radical transformation. If global mobility managers and their talents have been content to ride the waves, the search for talent and good skill sets in a pandemic world would be like building an ocean.  New skills...

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10 Apr Training Assignees to Create Value Helps in Focusing on Target Market 

Posted at 21:25h in Corporate Culture & Training, Expat, Global Mobility by Ray [social_share]

Value and its constant creation for our customers. That is the key differentiator that will enable some businesses to survive over others in our economically challenged times.  Global mobility managers who are fighting to keep their departments and projects intact must remind themselves of this reality...

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02 Apr Global Mobility Managers are Looking for Talents Open to Rebuilding Careers

Posted at 01:05h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Global Mobility, Northern California, Steady Jobs, Work from Home by Ray [social_share]

The time for complacency is over. At some point since this crisis started, global mobility managers have received these harrowing questions from their talents: How long will I keep my job as an expat? Wouldn’t an expat be the one first one to be let...

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27 Mar Why Expats Also Need Guidance on Money-related Stress, Emotional Triggers

Posted at 21:07h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Expat, Global Mobility, Northern California, Relocating by Ray [social_share]

Money problems and the uncertainty of where the next dollar is coming from are the most painful triggers of stress that have been caused by the coronavirus.   As businesses shut down and unemployment looms, the thought of paying the next bill is enough to cause anxiety...

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25 Mar Services, Reinventing Business Models Up in Coronavirus Times 

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

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...

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14 Mar A Reflective Approach to Working from Home for Assignees

Posted at 01:32h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Job Prospects by Ray [social_share]

For the past two months now, COVID-19 has changed the way people work, but Adam Grant, professor of Management and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, shared what he thinks will change from a mental and physical perspective: Some people will suffer from...

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05 Mar Critical Role of Communications During the Coronavirus Crisis

Posted at 15:24h in Corporate Culture & Training, Corporate Housing, Expat by Ray [social_share]

How does one navigate the new reality we’re living in? Questions abound. This makes the role of communications even more critical nowadays. For example, how will the quarantine impact global mobility? Will assignees lose our jobs? How long do we have to work from home?  Crises like...

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