Retirement is giving away to unretirement, as senior members in the workforce, even executives, realize they prefer to stay on in the workplace instead of just collecting their retirement pay and sailing off into the sunset. Unretirement means staying active in the workplace, either as a...
Big Data, or the tons of information that stream through a company’s servers and structures every single day, is being used by global mobility specialists and human resource professionals for the recruitment of candidates, as well as the performance tracking of employees and assignees. As explained...
San Francisco in Northern California attracts a lot more of its fair share of talents -- and a lot of them are millennials -- for a lot of obvious reasons. The chance to become among the tech giants that shape the world is one of...
If there’s one thing human resource specialists and corporate housing providers like California Corporate Housing have observed, it’s this: the prevalence of three to four generations of talents with unique skills and diverse backgrounds working shoulder-to-shoulder. This phenomenon goes beyond the avuncular executive mentoring a newbie...
Global mobility specialists find their tasks easier if the assignee he has hired is working as part of one monocultural team. For example, he brings in an Asian or European programmer to work in a retail store trying to find its digital footprint somewhere in...
Making foreign and American talents adjust to the companies that hire them are enough to keep global mobility specialists on their toes. Assignees have to be both a good corporate and culture fit that another concern is overlooked: generation gap. Tech-savvy, social-media-oriented millennials will make up...
Many arguments have been made about the advantages and benefits the H-1B visa have provided the American economy, but one fact still has to be mentioned. That pillar of American sports culture known as the National Basketball Association (NBA), would have played a very different...
It’s a situation that can give a global mobility specialist a panic attack. There’s an outbreak of epidemic in one of your allied countries, or flights have been grounded in one of its cities because of a terrorist attack. You learn that one of the...
The global mobility specialist’s work does not end once his assignee starts reporting to work in his new company -- in fact, it has just begun. The success of the assignee will reflect on the global mobility specialist’s choice of recruit, and perhaps can extend...
The millennial workforce is about to get even younger. And just when you thought you had them figured out (or still not), new studies have broken them down into two categories: the Gen-Ys born from roughly the late 1980s to the late 1990s and the...